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Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. An advocate was shot dead and another critically injured by a sub-inspector inside a district court premises in Allahabad today, following which lawyers went on a rampage, hurling stones at administrative officials and resorting to arson. The incident took place in the afternoon when Sub-Inspector Shailendra Singh brought a criminal to the court for a hearing. Mr Singh, according to the police, had an altercation with some of the lawyers present in the court. This reportedly led to the officer's manhandling who is then alleged to have fired with his service weapon at Advocate Nabi Ahmad, from a close range. Another lawyer standing with him is reported to have sustained gunshot injures on his foot. "According to some advocates prese