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Tis Hazari lawyers to protest tomorrow

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. The Delhi Bar Association (DBA) has called upon its members to abstain form courts in Tis Hazari here on Wednesday in protest against the transfer of civil cases from there to the Karkardooma courts by the Delhi High Court.

In a signed statement, the DBA president, Rajeev Khosla, and the general secretary, Sanjeev Nasiar, said the High Court under the garb of providing work to new Civil Judges had sent civil cases to Kakardooma despite the fact that the pendency in the civil courts in Tis Hazari was much less than in Labour courts, Motor Accident Claim Tribunals and Additional Sessions Judges there.

The statement accused the High Court authorities of adopting a discriminatory attitude towards the Tis Hazari lawyers by sending civil cases to Karkardooma.

Citing pendency of cases in the Metropolitan Magistrate courts in Tis Hazari, it said that the number of cases pending in those courts was many times more than in the Civil courts there.

The High Court had taken into account the facts and figures of other branches of law for transferring cases from Tis Hazari to Karkardooma, the statement added.

Further, the statement said that after realising that the experiment of sending civil cases had failed as sufficient number of cases could not be assigned to the newly appointed Civil Judges, the High Court was now thinking of creating special courts for hearing matters under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act at Karkardooma by changing the designation of the Cvil Judge to that of MM.

The High Court was not working in the right direction to reduce the pendency of cases either court-wise or subject-wise, the statement alleged, adding that it was ironical that the suggestions made by the Bar for reducing the pendency of cases was being ignored.

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