Lawyer held with spy cam in HC

Kaur’s actions caught the eye of a court official when he saw a red light blinking from her pen. The official,sources say,immediately notified security officials. Sources said Kaur happened to realise something was wrong and tried to leave when she was whisked away by officials.

She was taken to the office of the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP),Delhi High Court,and made to wait there. Shortly thereafter,Crime Branch personnel arrived at the scene and closeted themselves with an agitated Kaur.

In a statement addressed to “ACP,Crime Branch”,Kaur recounted her story. She introduced herself as a “senior lawyer” who had started her day at the Tis Hazari courts and then arrived to the High Court to meet a lawyer friend.

She remembers carrying three pens with her. “I did not know there was a pen drive or a video camera in the pen,” she said. About the incident,Kaur said she was sitting in Justice Midha’s court while waiting for her friend,but had gone out to answer a phone call.

“My daughter has been released. The pen she was carrying was that of a child. How would she know it had a camera?” said M S Mann,her father,also a lawyer,who seen standing outside the police security room where she was held.

Police sources said the pen has been confiscated by the Crime Branch,but Kaur was released. “Who would dare arrest a lawyer?” a police officer said.