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Lawyers disrupt work

Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA: In a rare show of strength, lawyers from all over Himachal Pradesh converged outside the State Secretariat here and disrupted official activities for at least four hours on Thursday afternoon.

Thousands of lawyers protesting against the imposition of professional tax and an unprecedented increase in the court fees started gathering at the High Court premises since morning. Shouting slogans they marched to the Secretariat and held a big rally on the main road connecting a number of Shimla suburbs outside the Secretariat.

Speakers at the rally criticised the Virbhadra Singh Government for imposing the profession tax and the manifold increase in the court fees recently. Calling it a state of "financial emergency", they said the Government, which was not leaving any section of the society uncovered from the tax net, had lately become bankrupt. It was collecting money from the general public and hardworking professionals for its own use and maintaining its paraphernalia, they alleged. The State Bar Council decided to involve the 30 other categories of professionals on whom this professional tax had been imposed.

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