PRAYAGRAJ, May 22 -- Colonelganj police on Tuesday arrested the lawyer accused of assaulting a couple inside the courtroom on April 29. The couple had arrived in connection with a case related to a property dispute in which the lawyer and his aides were opponents. An FIR was registered against the lawyers Ranvijay, Mohd Asif and others at Colonelganj police station on complaint of the couple.

The District Bar Association cancelled the membership of ten lawyers after the high court took cognizance of the incident in the report of the district judge. The accused Ranvijay Singh was on the run and was arrested in Ghaziabad on Monday night, police said.

As per reports, Monis and his wife had gone to the district court for hearing in a proper...