M. Maharaja,

Tiruchi

The Srikrishna report, as expected, is not acceptable to the lawyers. Every right-thinking person knows who started the trouble in the Madras High Court. Are the police expected to remain spectators while a police station is being set on fire? While there is no excuse for police excesses, lawyers too cannot behave like hooligans.

T.R. Venkataraman,

Palakkad

The lawyers are precipitating the crisis by refusing to resume work. Just because the Srikrishna report does not suit their interests, they should not refuse to accept it. By continuing to be intransigent, they are setting a bad example.

S.R. Badrinarayanan,

Chennai

The Srikrishna report is along expected lines. Besides blaming lawyers for their behaviour, it has also criticised the disproportionate use of force by the police. The observation that the soft policy of the acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and its administration emboldened the lawyers made sad reading. The police and the lawyers should accept their faults and stop playing the blame game.

Shahid Jamal,

New Delhi

The striking lawyers should see reason, introspect on their role and ponder over the utility of continuing the strike even after Justice Srikrishna has brought into focus the circumstances that led to the police excesses on the fateful day. They would do well to resume work immediately. A code of conduct should be evolved for lawyers and a better disciplinary mechanism put in place to restore the profession of law to its original glory.

K. Ruben,

Vellore

Whatever has been done cannot be undone. It would be prudent to move on. Lawyers must resume work in their own interest and that of the litigants. When the Tamil Nadu government appealed to them to go back to court, they did not listen. Nor did they take the advice of the Supreme Court. When the families of policemen tried to strike a compromise, they ignored it. At least now, they should come forward to end the stalemate.

G. Kannapiran,

Chennai

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