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Lawyers continue boycott of court

CUTTACK: The agitating lawyers of Orissa High Court on Monday decided to continue boycott of court proceedings till Friday in view of the demands to set up permanent circuit benches at various places of the State.

The lawyers had been boycotting the court since Thursday last in protest against the delay by the Chief Justice in rejecting the proposal of the Chief Minister over opening permanent circuit benches of the High Court elsewhere in the State.

The lawyers also paralysed the court on November 15 and 16 in protest against the Chief Minister’s proposal terming it a ‘political gimmick’.

The lawyers allege that the Chief Minister’s move to request the Chief Justice encouraged various Bar associations of the State to make such “unrealistic” demands

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik earlier this month had requested the State Chief Justice to consider opening of HC circuit benches at Berhampur and Sambalpur in response to people’s demands.

Lawyers of Baripada are also demanding setting up of HC Bench somewhere in North Orissa.

But the High Court Bar had decried the proposal of the Chief Minister and passed a resolution urging the Chief Justice to reject the government’s proposal as was once rejected way back in 1991.

Meanwhile, when the lawyers are objecting to opening of circuit benches of HC elsewhere, lawyers from Bhubaneswar have been protesting for last fortnight demanding shifting of the HC from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar or either setting up a permanent circuit bench in the State capital. In view of the cease work stir by various Bar associations across the State, the justice delivery system received a setback. Many clients are turning up to courts everyday but they are returning home empty-handed.

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