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Lawyers leave for Bangalore

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, SEPT. 14. A team of lawyers from Gulbarga, Bidar and Raichur districts left here for Bangalore to be part of the delegation led by the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, to meet the Chief Justice, High Court of Karnataka, N.K. Jain, on Wednesday to persuade him to reconsider his decision on the demand for a Bench of the High Court in north Karnataka.

A spokesperson of the Hyderabad Karnataka High Court Horata Samiti, consisting of the representative lawyers from Gulbarga, Bidar and Raichur Bar Associations, said here on Tuesday that the Samiti would submit a memorandum to the Chief Justice demanding that a Bench of the High Court bet set up in any one of the centres in the Hyderabad Karnataka region.

He said a meeting of the office-bearers of the Gulbarga, Bidar and Raichur Bar Associations and other taluk Bars in the region in Gulbarga on Monday passed a unanimous resolution to intensify the agitation by organising a Hyderabad Karnataka Bandh on September 21.

It had decided to present a memorandum to the President during his visit here on September 23.

At Monday's meeting, the President of the Bidar Bar Association, Kashinathrao Phule, and the Raichur Bar Association President, Shankargouda Nadgouda, and the office-bearers of almost all taluk Bars in the region expressed their solidarity with the demand for the Bench in the region.

The meeting also decided to extend the boycott of work in all courts in the region till September 23.

Senior lawyers, including Kalyanrao Bhakshi, Pawan Deshpande, Prabhakar Alagudkar, who addressed the meeting, spelt out the need for intensifying the agitation. They said the Chief Justice should be persuaded to visit Gulbarga to hear their pleas.

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