Chandigarh, Dec. 17 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday took suo motu note of an alleged assault on an advocate, residing in Nayagaon, Punjab, by Haryana Police personnel as lawyers' suspended the work for the second consecutive day.

The lawyers are demanding registration of criminal case against the policemen, who were allegedly in plain clothes and had entered the jurisdiction of Punjab, without informing local police.

The high court bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry sought affidavit from the Punjab director general of police (DGP) by Wednesday afternoon.

The allegations are that these cops on November 30 entered his house in Nayagaon and assaulted him. The Haryana cops were reportedly investigati...