MP: Lawyers, judicial staff to get RFID cards to enter courts

“The recent attack on an undertrial inside a trial court at Rohini in Delhi by two assailants dressed up as lawyers is a harbinger of our worst nightmare coming true,” the order said.

In the wake of a recently, the Madhya Pradesh High Court administration has issued an order for the issuance of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) cards to lawyers, judicial officers and court staff for entry into various court premises in the State.

As per the order and standard operating procedures issues by M.P. High Court registrar general R.K. Vani on Saturday, the RFID stickers would be handed over to lawyers and other staff members to paste them on their vehicles for entry to the high court's principal seat at Jabalpur, its benches in Indore and Gwalior, and district courts across the State.

On September 24, a turf war broke out inside a crowded Rohini courtroom in Delhi between two rival gangs in which a jailed gangster and his two assailants posing as lawyers were killed in the dramatic shootout, officials earlier said.