India, Aug. 21 -- The Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered the Bidhannagar city police to register a first information report (FIR) in connection with a petition over the assault on a lawyer and his son, allegedly by some policemen.

A bench of justice Tirthankar Ghosh also instructed the police to withdraw the policemen accused of attacking the lawyer, Manujendra Narayan Roy, from duty, preserve the CCTV footage in the area and file a report by Monday.

The lawyer's son Sourindranarayan Roy told reporters that his father was rushed to the hospital following the attack and was slated to undergo surgery.

Krishnendu Bhattacharya, vice president of the Calcutta high court bar association, said Roy, a bar association member, was brutally ...