Lawyers Stay Away From Ncr Courts

Lawyers Stay Away From NCR Courts 14 Jan 2009, 1318 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Work in district courts in the National Capital Region was affected on Wednesday with lawyers going on strike demanding withdrawal of the proposed changes in the CrPC that gives police the discretion to arrest the accused in an offence punishable upto 7 year jail term. This is the second time that the lawyers' bodies have observed strike in districts courts over the issue. They had struck work on January 7. "There is total strike in the district courts of the Delhi as well as NCR region," Co-Ordination committee All Bar Associations of Delhi spokesperson Rajiv Khosla said. The lawyers in the cases listed for the day did not appear in the courts while the courts adjourned the matter, he said. Khosla further claimed that the advocates' bodies were observing strike in as many as 55 districts including that of Ghaziabad, Noida, Moradabad, Bulandshahr, Almorah, Badaun, Hissar, Faridabad and Alwar. A meeting of the different bar associations has been organised tomorrow here where a decision regarding All-India strike and demonstration would be taken on the issue. "A memorandum seeking withdrawal of the proposed amendment has been sent to the President and the Union Home Minister and if no decision is taken the lawyers' protest would be intensified," Khosla warned. The bar leaders fear that the proposed amendment removing mandatory arrest provisions in the offences punishable upto seven years would remove fear from minds of criminals who would misuse the provisions under the garb of personal liberty.

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