"Some lawyers came in and vandalised the court room, breaking glass panes of the door and throwing around furniture," officials at Chief Justice Mohit Shah's court room said.Refuting the allegations, senior counsel Subroto Mukhopadhyay said, "It was just a glass pane that had come off the hinges and not due to any application of force by anyone."
Protesting against last night's police action, the West Bengal Bar Council has called a day-long ceasework at all courts in the state on Friday.The Calcutta High Court Bar Association members held meetings and rallies in and around the court premises condemning the police action.A dispute over allotment of a court room to assistant court officers by the Chief Justice had led to a confrontation with the Bar Association.Some 60 to 70 lawyers occupied the room last evening and refused to vacate despite several requests, the chief justice's office sources said. Police were then called in and the lawyers were forced out of the room around midnight.