Assault on woman lawyer: Police arrest Beyline Das in TVM

Thiruvananthapuram: The police here on Thursday arrested advocate Beyline Das in connection with the alleged assault of a young woman lawyer - Shyamily Justin. Thumba Police apprehended him from Station Kadavu here after tracing his vehicle, reported Manorama News.

The case reportedly left the woman advocate with serious facial injuries. It occurred following a dispute between two junior advocates at Das' office, which escalated into physical violence. The injured woman was rushed to the General Hospital for treatment.

Police have registered a case against Das under Sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 74 (assault or criminal force against a woman), and 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

According to a PTI report, officer of Vanchiyoor police station, where a case under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered against advocate Beylin Das, said that the lawyer was in custody and the process to formally record his arrest was going on. He landed in the police net hours after his lawyer Dileep Sathyan said that anticipatory bail plea was filed in the sessions court on Thursday.

Shyamily’s family claimed that the Das was being helped to escape from the law. They also rubbished the allegations that she had assaulted the senior lawyer and claimed that  it was an attempt at establishing grounds for Das to obtain anticipatory bail.

One of the senior members of the Bar Association of the Vanchiyoor court reportedly alleged that Shyamily had hit Das.

Meanwhile, Shyamily on Wednesday declared that she would take all possible legal measures against Beyline Das. She also alleged that Das had beaten her once earlier when she was five months pregnant.

"He (Beyline) gets angry very quickly if we question anything he says or does. He had hit me earlier when I questioned his behaviour of throwing files at me. This time too, he got angry over an internal matter and assaulted me," she said.

After police booked Beyline Das on Wednesday, the Kerala Bar Council barred him from practising law and initiated an inquiry against him.

According to Thiruvananthapuram Bar Association Secretary Vallakadavu Muraleedharan, the altercation began between the woman advocate and another junior lawyer at the same office. “While the argument escalated, Das intervened, which led to a confrontation between her and the injured lawyer. Das then assaulted her.”