Advocates Strike Against High Court Order

Advocates Strike Against High Court Order 17 Jan 2009, 0708 hrs IST, TNN KANPUR: The advocates of Kanpur nagar and dehat district continued their strike on second successive day on Friday. The strike was in response to the call of strike given by Allahabad High Court Bar Association to protest the order of high court regarding condolence on the death of an advocate. The Allahabad High Court Bar Association had given a call for strike in protest against the amendment in section 309 criminal procedure code according to Indivar Bajpai, general secretary, Kanpur Bar Association . He informed that a joint meeting of Kanpur Bar Association and The Lawyers Association had decided to respond to the call of Allahabad High Court Bar Association and continue strike to press their demand to implement old and traditional procedure of condolence. The High Court recently in an order issued directions to the district courts to close the courts at 3.30 pm instead after lunch. The advocates took the matter seriously and lodged their protest .They claimed that the Kanpur court had a tradition to close the judicial work in second session to condole the death of an advocate. They claimed that if courts would close at 3.30 pm then when other advocates would go to pay tribute or for attending last rites. General secretary informed that chief justice had given him an appointment on Monday noon at Lucknow where he would present his presentation in this regard .If our demand was not met then Kanpur Bar association would convene a conference of all the Bar Associations of state to discuss the issue and future action would be taken in that meeting . Indeevar Bajpai said that the advocates of two district courts would remain on strike on Saturday, while on Monday they would observe strike in response of call by All India Bar Council.

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