Hundreds of lawyers at the Metropolitan Magistrate court in Mumbai's Borivali suburb went on a strike on Thursday after one of their colleagues was allegedly assaulted by a cop inside a police station, an official said.

According to Rajesh More, president of the court's bar association, a lawyer named Prithviraj Zhala was on Tuesday hit at Kandivli police station, where he had gone with a client, following an argument with assistant police inspector (API) Anant Gite.