Cross-complaints lodged over scuffle between lawyers, bank staff in UP's Ghaziabad: Police

Updated: Jun 7 2023 12:27AM

Ghaziabad (UP), Jun 6 (PTI) Cross-FIRs have been filed in connection with a scuffle between lawyers and bank employees on the premises of the Ambedkar road branch of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) here, police said on Tuesday.

The lawyers got an FIR lodged on Tuesday against the manager and eight other employees of the bank, they added.

They have been booked under sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 392 (robbery), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the basis of a complaint from advocate Nahar Singh Yadav, the former president of the Bar Association of Ghaziabad.

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