Lawyers in state strike work

Condemning the alleged attack on advocates by the Delhi police at the Tis Hazari courts in Delhi, and expressing solidarity with the injured lawyers, advocates from all over the state stayed away from judicial work on Monday.

While High Court and district court advocates did not appear in judicial proceedings, some junior counsels took the next dates for the cases.

Lawyers held a rally from the High Court to Madina crossroads to protest the alleged assault in Delhi on

November 2. The Bar Council of Telangana state condemned the alleged attack which was sparked by a row over car parking.

Mr A. Narasimha Reddy, chairman of the Bar Council, said that on behalf of advocates from the state, a representation would be sent to the Bar Council of India to press the Centre to enforce the Lawyers Protection Act.

High Court Bar Association president T. Surya Karan Reddy and his predecessor Gandra Mohan Rao said, “The Delhi incident was not simple assault on an advocate. It is an assault on the judicial system. If the system remains intact and powerful, only then can justice be delivered.”

Mr Sunkari Janardhan Goud, former secretary of the association, stated, “This incident is no less than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The police shot bullets at point-blank range at the advocates over the trivial issue of parking a car.”

Lawyers and police had clashed at Tis Hazari court complex in New Delhi on Saturday afternoon during which at least 20 police personnel and several lawyers were injured while 17 vehicles vandalised.