Delhi lawyers have called off their indefinite strike in the city’s lower courts after Delhi Police transferred an assistant commissioner of police and a station house officer over an alleged assault on lawyers at Shahdara police station on October 23, allowing judicial work to resume from October 29.
The decision was taken by the Coordination Committee of All District Court Bar Associations of Delhi after a meeting between representatives of the legal fraternity and Delhi Police. Under the transfers, the ACP was moved to the Special Police Unit for Women and Children, while the SHO was transferred to the security unit.
The strike had halted regular legal work in Delhi’s district courts, where lawyers’ availability is central to hearings, filings and other proceedings. The committee’s decision links the resumption of court work to the transfers, but it has retained several demands related to the allegations and the investigations that followed.
Advocate Neeraj, chairperson of the coordination committee, thanked members of the legal fraternity for their “unwavering support, solidarity and collective resolve”. Dhir Singh Kasana, former secretary-general of the Saket Court bar association, said both officers had been transferred following the protest and that judicial work would resume the next day.
The lawyers have demanded that an inquiry into complaints filed by the Shahdara Bar Association against the police officers be completed within two months. The source report does not provide the present status of that inquiry or identify the authority conducting it.
The committee has also sought immediate and effective steps to apprehend the accused named in FIR 248/2026 at Shahdara police station. It said lawyers would pursue legal remedies if necessary. The report does not specify the offences recorded in the FIR or the identities of the accused.
A separate demand concerns the investigation into an FIR registered against advocates at Shahdara police station. The lawyers have asked for that investigation to be completed within a week, placing separate timelines on the complaints involving police officers and the case involving advocates.
The dispute has brought the functioning of district courts into focus, where disagreements between legal practitioners and police authorities can affect the continuity of court-related services. With the strike withdrawn, the immediate operational issue is the return of judicial work, while the inquiries and investigations sought by the committee remain pending.
The next stated milestones are the resumption of judicial work from October 29, completion of the investigation against advocates within a week and completion of the inquiry into complaints against the police officers within two months.
