BCI condemns attacks by its co-chairman Sadashiva Reddy, its office in Bangalore

Sadashiva Reddy. Photo: ksbc.org.in

The Law Commission of India (BCI) condemned the attack on its co-chair YR Sadashiva Reddy in its private office in Bangalore on April 16.

BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said in a statement that the harm Mr Reddy suffered was “not random injuries, which were blows designed to silence, cruelty and intimidate senior advocates and a man elected to the Legal Brotherhood”. Mr Reddy was elected as BCI from the Karnataka State Bar Association (KSBC).

According to the first information report (FIR) registered by Halasurgate police in the city of Bengaluru, according to Mr Reddy’s complaint, the pair came to his office around 8.30 am and attacked him with a fiber pipe, causing serious injuries, such as a fracture.

In the attack, one of the attackers shouted that Mr. Reddy had complained two years ago about his mother who had allegedly established a relationship with a senior defense lawyer (a senior advocate who is no longer a senior advocate) that he did not entertain his mother.

The attackers said he did not obtain the assets of the late senior lawyer because of Mr. Reddy. Before leaving the office after the attack, the attacker wrote down his cell phone number on a piece of paper, asked Mr. Reddy to do everything he wanted, and threatened Mr. Reddy that he would not let him live.

Additionally, Mr Reddy said in the complaint that a man claimed to be E. Rose Marry’s son, called him from an unknown phone number on the evening of April 15, seeking a date to discuss the emergency, and that perhaps the same person attacked him, although Mr Reddy asked him to come to the office on the evening of April 16.

Under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the crime of murder, the crime of serious injury, the criminal pressure has been passed, the police have registered, and they have arrested people in this regard.

Meanwhile, Vivek Subba Reddy, president of the Bangalore Advocate Association, praised the police’s efforts to arrest the defendant within 12 hours of the incident, while condemning the attack. The AAB will hold a demonstration in Bangalore on April 21 to protest the attack on lawyers.

The BCI also urges advocates that regardless of grade or position, they must encounter any reliable threats in their homes and offices to be protected in their homes and offices. The BCI requires that the offices of the bar committee and bar association meeting rooms must be given to the offices of the security audit, CCTV surveillance, panic buttons and 24/7 police presence.