LUCKNOW: Septuagenarian Haseena has been making rounds of the courts here for a week now to find a lawyer for her grandson Waseem, 27, arrested for his alleged involvement in violence during protests against CAA on December 19, but hasn’t been able to find anybody willing to take up the case.

“My neighbours helped me approach some lawyers in the lower courts, but they refused to take up my case. They called Waseem anti-national and ridiculed me,” said Haseena, a resident of Old Basmandi.

Like Haseena, many others are finding it tough to get lawyers to file bail applications for their arrested kin. Several families claimed lawyers had turned down their requests, saying that their kin indulged in “anti-national activity”.

