Video of two women lawyers fighting on court premises goes viral

By Keerthika M V

BENGALURU: A viral video clip of two women fighting in the corridor of a court complex is being widely shared across social media. Many social media users shared video claiming that a lawyer and a judge were fighting in the court premises in Maharashtra.

In a viral clip, two women are seen pulling their hair and throwing punches and slapping each other while other lawyers are seen trying to separate them. A woman police personnel finally arrives there and breaks up the the fight.

A Facebook page posted the viral video and said, “The court is the place where one gives the verdict in many cases, but lawyers are not behaving properly on court premises.”

A policewoman intervened and broke up the fight.

According to a fact-checking website, “A fight erupted between two lawyers competing against each other in a family court case in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh. The lawyers started fighting when things got heated up during their trial for a couple. Local police booked a case against the two”. The fact-checking website concluded that the video was misleading.

When contacted, Ajith Kalyan, a lawyer, who practices in the Karnataka High Court, told Public TV, “Judges follow certain protocols. It is misleading to say that a judge and a lawyer were involved in the fight. The incident, a video of which has gone viral, occurred about 10 days ago. Physical fights on court premises is inappropriate behaviour on the part of legal practitioners. I think they fought because of differences in opinion, and they may have been representing two different parties”.