text: 2,000 lawyers join rally to protest against Howrah court clash | Kolkata News - Times of India
  KOLKATA: Around 2,000 lawyers from across the state participated in a rally on Tuesday against the April 24 alleged "police brutality" on Howrah court lawyers. The rally started from outside the City Civil Court and proceeded along roads in front of Calcutta High Court, Bankshall Court and then reached outside Raj Bhavan. It was organised under the banner of Lawyers' Unity.
  A seven-member delegation of Lawyers' Unity then met Governor Kesari Nath Tripathy at Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum against the April 24 incident. Delegation members later said the governor heard their grievances and assured them that he would forward the deputation to the state government for appropriate action. R S Chatterjee of Lawyers' Unity later said: "The Bar Council of West Bengal has not taken any effective steps to resolve the issue besides calling for a state-wide cease-work by lawyers."
  The division bench headed by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T B N Radhakrishnan will hear the suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) on the issue on Wednesday. After the April 24 incident, the Chief Justice took suo motu cognizance of the matter and directed the high court registry to serve notices on 12 high-level functionaries, including state chief secretary, home secretary, DGP, advocate general, the centre's additional solicitor general for eastern region, Howrah district judge and Howrah chief judicial magistrate.