A court has granted interim protection from arrest to two lawyers and five other staffers of a legal firm in a rape and molestation case registered against them by a 35-year-old woman advocate.

The woman had alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the main accused, who had promised to give her a better salary at his legal firm and based on her complaint, an FIR was registered on July 26. Fearing arrest, one of the lawyers, who is the main accused in the case, moved a pre-arrest bail plea before the sessions court.