Indian police arrest 300 striking lawyers

More than 20 police jeeps were deployed to take the lawyers, on strike for the second day to protest the shifting of 12 courts to the Rohini district court complex in northwest Delhi.

The bar association of Tis Hazari, comprising about 7,000 Delhi-based lawyers, had closed all the seven gates on Wednesday, disallowing normal functioning of the courts that see around 80,000 litigants a day.

"The section of the Rohini court building is still unfinished. There is no parking space, no proper lawyer's chamber and no litigant's room. How can they ask us to shift there?" asked a spokesperson for the lawyers.

He said the strike would continue until their demands were met. "More than 20 police jeeps have arrested hundreds of our members, but we still have so many more."