The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Delhi-based advocate Vikram Singh, who was arrested by the Special Task Force of Gurugram Police in connection with a murder case. A bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria passed the order after hearing senior advocate Vikas Singh, who appeared for the lawyer.
The court directed that Singh be released forthwith on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 10,000, and listed the matter for further hearing next Wednesday.
The bench directed the Registrar (Judicial) of the Supreme Court to communicate the order to the Gurugram police commissioner for immediate compliance.
Vikas Singh, who is also president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said that anybody practising in criminal law will now be susceptible to this kind of coercive measures. He said the arrested advocate was representing gangsters but these kinds of atrocities from police against lawyers were impermissible.
On November 6, bar associations across Delhi district courts abstained from work to protest Singh’s false implication in the murder case. Singh, an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi since July 2019, is presently lodged in Faridabad Jail. Advocates said that the lawyer was targeted after filing an application before a court alleging custodial assault on one of his clients, Jyoti Prakash alias “Baba”, who reportedly suffered a leg fracture while in STF custody.
