DBA on war path against judge remark

Jabalpur, Jan 10: Taking a serious note of remarks passed by an Additional District Judge against the advocates and police action against them, District Bar Association (DBA) on Wednesday decided to abstain from the court work on Thursday at all lower courts in protest and to protect the integrity of the legal profession. According to RK Singh Saini, President of DBA, the executive body decided to abstain from the court work today in protest of misbehaviour and absurd remarks passed by some of presiding officers of District Court and to boycott the court of the concerned ADJ indefinitely.

A sitting Judicial Magistrate First Class lodged a police complaint against the Secretary of DBA Chandrakant Mishra, five office-bearers of DBA and 40 others persons for obstructing court work in the evening on January 8, when he was going to hold temporary bench sitting at the SP’s office. Some of the presiding judges of lower judiciary on January 9, did not sit and hear the cases and unofficially postponed the court work from first session despite instructions from the District and Sessions Judge Sharad Shrivastava.

The High Court Bar Association will also protest and wear white band on their right arm during the court work to express solidarity with the DBA. Adarsh Muni Trivedi, President of HCBA, condemned the police complaint against the DBA Secretary by the presiding officer of lower Judiciary and said that no such incident of misbehaviour took place. Trivedi said that the MPHC-BA will take suitable action the matter after holding the meeting of executive body of the association and declared support to DBA Secretary. He demanded the Superintendent of Police to withdraw the FIR registered by the Civil Lines Police against Mishra other lawyers.