AGARTALA, May 29 (TIWN): An FIR was lodged on Sunday against a retired police official and his brother for conducting a deadly attack on High Court Advocate and his mother in the Kamalghat area in Agartala. The injured Advocate Rajib Dhar was doing some construction work when the retired constable Joymohan Das and his brother Harimohan Das came and claimed, the work was illegal. When Rajib Dhar argued, they held attack on him with stick. They hit him three times, and when Rajib Dhar’s mother Sandhya Dhar rushed to save her son, they also attacked her with a steel rod. After the incident, Sandhya Dhar was left unconscious. Police complaint was made and both the injured son and mother were hospitalized. The Advocate said, the retired police official always behave like a Don in the area, should be punished legally.

This is not the first time that an Advocate has been injured but in Tripura in the last few years, many Advocates were attacked by such social miscreants. Many advocates faced political goons’ attacks for taking opposition leaders’ cases in hand.

Injured mother of Adv Rajib Dhar. TIWN Photo May 29, 2022