“Lawyers”, numbering up to 200, allegedly attacked leftist protest demonstrators in Allahabad, reported The Wire.

The report names several victims, including two women, who sustained injuries when 15-20 offenders, who’re reportedly lawyers, gathered at the spot of the peaceful demonstration, shouted slogans such as “Vande Mataram”, “Go back to Pakistan” and “traitors” at the demonstrators, and then called their associates to build up a crowd of 150-200 attackers.

Members of Left political parties theCommunist Party of India (Marxist), CPI, CPI (Marxist-Leninist), Socialist Unity Centre of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Block, and the Students Federation of India, All India Students Association and All India Democratic Students Organisation, trade union leaders, women rights activists, civil society and academicians had peacefully gathered, with prior permission, at the Allahabad Collectorate to submit a memorandum to the president of India through the district magistrate.

A police complaint has been lodged for attempt to murder, rioting, and outraging the modesty of women, however The Wire’s report, which draws parallels to the Patiala House lawyer-mob violence incident of 15 and 17 February, does not name any accused.