Cars of lawyers representing colleague in property case burnt

NEWDELHI: Three cars belonging to two senior lawyers were torched while cars and an office building of their colleague were attempted to be set on fire allegedly by unidentified miscreants in three separate incidents between January 4 and January 22.

The three lawyers, including Kirti Uppal, president of Delhi High Court Bar Association, expressed concern over their and their family members’ safety. The three lawyers were representing a female colleague in Delhi High Court in a property dispute with her relatives, police said. Advocate Vikas Pahwa’s Greater Kailash office building and parked cars were attempted to be set on fire on January 9. He said that such acts of ‘mischief’ were done to intimidate them. An FIR was registered on January 11 on Pahwa’s complaint.

On January 22, Uppal’s Hyundai Tucson car that was parked outside her house in south Delhi’s Nizamuddin West, was set on fire by unidentified miscreants, according to the FIR registered.

The stilt area of the house was also damaged in the fire, said Pahwa.

Before the arson attempt at his office building, Pahwa said two cars – Maruti Swift and Honda Amaze – belonging to advocate Ravi Sharma were set on fire by unidentified miscreants on January 4. The cars were parked at Sharma’s Dayanand Vihar home in east Delhi. “Footage from the CCTV of Sharma’s neighbour showed a man driving a car stopping outside Sharma’s house and throwing something on his cars because after which the cars went in flames,” said Pahwa, quoting the FIR filed at the Anand Vihar police station.