Summary:
The incident related to the alleged assault on a high court lawyer – Debi Prasad Pattnaik — by police near the fish market at Nuabazar on August 28, 2018. Mohanty on the other hand said there was a need for a policy to prevent police-lawyer conflict. The home department had issued a communication to the members on February 13 seeking a meeting of the committee at 6.30 pm at Circuit House here on Friday. The high court lawyers had gone on strike to demand the arrest of all the personnel involved in the fracas.The state government had constituted the committee with justice A S Naidu, a retired judge of the high court, as the chairman and nine other members. Cuttack: The committee set up in pursuance of the Orissa high court order to suggest ways of preventing the recurrence of police-lawyer conflict will consider proposals related to the issue on March 1.The committee will give suggestions to check the recurrence of the kind of conflict that had led to a strike by lawyers lasting 78 days last year..