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Lawyers gear up for bandh today

BERHAMPUR: Lawyers of the Ganjam Bar Association have decided to exempt marriage parties along with ambulances, school buses and vehicles carrying patients during the Ganjam bandh on Friday.

The Bar association has given the bandh call in protest against the police lathicharge on lawyers on the Berhampur court premises on Wednesday. The association is also demanding action against Ganjam Superintendent of Police Devidutta Singh for the alleged police atrocities on innocent lawyers and police attempts to frame false cases against lawyers. Several other Bar associations of the district have extended their support to the bandh call, said S.N. Rath, president of the Ganjam Bar Association.

The Paralakhemundi Bar Association in Gajapati district has also decided to observe cease work on Friday in support of the bandh call.

According to Mr. Rath, different trade unions and citizens’ forums of the city have extended their support to the badh call. The association members have decided to exempt the vehicles used by marriage parties from plying on the roads during the bandh. Mr. Rath said hundreds of marriage ceremonies were scheduled to be held on Friday and they did not want to disrupt festivities of any family.

Similarly, the lawyers also did not want to disrupt the examinations continuing in different schools and decided to exempt the schools and the school buses. They have decided to block railway traffic at Berhampur railway station for two hours from 5 a.m. Then they would block the NH 5 that passes by the city and the NH 217 that passes through it. Different groups of lawyers would also move around the city to picket government institutions to get them closed.

The Ganjam district unit of the Congress decided to support the bandh.

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