A day after lawyers attacked journalists and students while a Delhi BJP MLA assaulted a CPI member at the Patiala House Courts complex in the heart of the Capital, the Supreme Court is hearing the petition on the violence at the courts complex.


Inside the courtroom, the SC says only the lawyer concerned with the sedition case of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar should be present for the hearing today.


Counsel for the Delhi Police has assured the Supreme Court that enough security arrangements have been made for today's hearing at the Patiala House court.


Meanwhile, a lawyer present in court, Rajeev Tadac,  shouts 'Vande Mataram' inside SC courtroom. The bench hearing the case responds, "Is this what happens in a top court?"

Tadac seeks forgiveness, in response to which the court has agreed to pardon him.  The
police take him into custody.


Yesterday, senior lawyer Indira Jaising mentioned the petition before Chief Justice T S Thakur who agreed to have it listed for hearing Wednesday.


The petition filed by N D Jaiprakash, an alumnus of JNU who was injured in the attack, also sought directives to ensure the safety of JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar '" booked for sedition, Kanhaiya has to be produced in court at the end of his police custody.


The petition said the safety of journalists and lawyers too must be ensured and it must also be seen that nobody is denied access to justice. It sought a direction to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Delhi Police to take all preventive measures so that no violence takes place either inside the court room or within the court complex.