A lawyer and his associate have been booked under the stringent Gangster Act in connection with cases of land grab, police said today. According to the police, lawyer Ranjan Mittal and his aide Rajiv Aggarwal have been booked under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act. Protesting against the move, a group of lawyers led by the district bar association president staged a demonstration. They alleged that the lawyer had been falsely implicated in the land grab cases.
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