Calcutta, March 15 :     Lawyers at Bankshall Court went berserk, ransacking the office of the chief metropolitan magistrate and assaulting senior police officers on the court premises on Wednesday afternoon. They also stalled court proceedings during the day, protesting the arrest of colleague Asit Dutta. Dutta was picked up by the Amhest Street police station on charges of 'outraging the modesty' of his tenant, Alpana Dutta, on Beniatala Lane, on Tuesday afternoon. While the woman, in her complaint, said Dutta 'assaulted and molested her', the lawyer said he was being framed as he had tried to stop her from running a 'flesh-trade racket' from his house. Residents of the area, however, claimed that Dutta was beaten up by locals after he molested the woman on Tuesday. He was then forced to flee the locality. The lawyers at Bankshall Court went on the rampage after their colleague, produced in court wearing just a towel, alleged that the police had raided his house and seized some liquor bottles, a gold chain and other valuables. All hell broke loose when the officer-in-charge of Amherst Street police station was summoned by the court. He was greeted with blows from the lawyers, forcing him to beat a hasty retreat. Next, enter assistant commissioner of police, central division, and OC, Hare Street police station. They, too, met with the same fate at the hands of the black-robed assailants. With the outnumbered police force standing by, the lawyers ransacked the office of the chief metropolitan magistrate and the adjoining rooms, smashing furniture and flower pots. When senior police officers, including DC, central, Raj Kanojia, and joint commissioner, organisation, S.N. Sarkar, arrived on the spot, they were denied entry into the court premises. The lawyers demanded the 'immediate arrest' of the Amherst Street officer-in-charge as their pound of flesh for their colleague's 'humiliation'. By the end of the day, Asit Dutta had been granted bail while the court had issued bailable warrants of arrest against the investigation officer of the case and the OC of Amherst Street police station, said DC headquarters, Nazrul Islam. The DC, however, claimed Asit Dutta was in a 'drunken state' when he molested the woman. A medical test had, apparently, confirmed that he was 'inebriated'. 'This is nothing but a dispute between the landlord and the tenant, blown out of all proportion to try and teach Dutta a lesson,' claimed his fellow-lawyers.