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Sunday, Jul 04, 2004

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Tamil Nadu

Lahoti forms panel to end lawyers' strike in State

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI, JULY 3. The Chief Justice of India (CJI), R.C. Lahoti, has constituted a two-member committee to end the State-wide strike by lawyers in Tamil Nadu over the jurisdiction of the proposed Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.

The Chief Justice's move came after a delegation of lawyers from Chennai arrived in New Delhi to seek his intervention in the matter.

The committee, comprising Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice A.R. Lakshmanan, immediately met the delegation headed by the Madras High Court Advocates Association president, S. Prabhakaran, and heard their grievances.

According to highly placed sources, the committee made it clear to the delegation that the association should call off the indefinite strike and resume duty from Monday.

The Madurai Bar was also asked to immediately call off the strike.

Jurisdiction issue

The delegation was told that the issue of jurisdiction could not be decided without hearing the views of the Madurai Bar.

As a way out, their representation to the CJI would be forwarded to the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Subhashan Reddy, who would invite both the groups for talks and decide the jurisdiction.

The committee will meet Mr. Lahoti tomorrow to apprise him of the talks it had with the delegation.

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