Lucknow, July 23 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday converted the matter concerning the alleged assault on three Delhi-based advocates, including two women lawyers, and their client inside the Lucknow district court premises on Tuesday into a separate suo motu public interest litigation (PIL). The court has reserved its order on the interim directions.

A division Bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla passed the order after considering the reports of the Lucknow district judge and the commissioner of police, the FIR lodged against the advocates against whom allegations have been made in the application, the video clip produced by the applicants and the CCTV footage produced by the district judge....