The lawyers of the Allahabad High Court remained on strike boycotting judicial work here on Wednesday in protest against the lathicharge by the Hapur police on lawyers there. The lawyers protested by raising slogans at different gates of the High Court. Angry over the incident in Hapur, the lawyers also burnt an effigy outside Gate No 3 of the High Court.
The lawyers have demanded registration of FIR and stringent action against the ‘guilty’ police personnel. Seeing the anger of the advocates, a large number of police forces were deployed around the High Court here.
Panchu Ram Maurya, former president of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council, said the government should take the incident in Hapur seriously and strict action should be taken against the guilty policemen. The lawyers said that incidents of assault on lawyers by the police are coming to the fore. No action is taken against the policemen. This is the reason why such incidents are happening again and again.
To prevent such incidents from happening again, the lawyers also demanded the Advocates Protection Act. The lawyers of Lucknow Bench also abstained from judicial work on Wednesday. The lawyers of many districts also boycotted work. Due to the lawyers’ strike, the hearing of all the cases has been postponed due to which the litigants had to face a lot of trouble.
CGL Exam: Over 50 per cent (pc) candidates, who had registered for the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam-2023 did not appear for the exam, revealed a recent Right to Information (RTI) response from the Staff Selection Commission (SSC). The exam is held for filling positions like tax assistant in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), auditors in the Controller General of Defence Accounts, inspectors (central excise) in the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, assistant section officers in the Ministry of External Affairs, sub-inspector (S-I) in CBI, senior administrative assistant in the Military Engineering Services, Ministry of Defence, and S-I/ junior intelligence officer in the Narcotics Control Bureau among others.
As per the information furnished by the SSC, out of the 24,74,030 candidates, only 12,36,202 (49.97 pc) participated in the computer-based tier-I examination held on July 27. The remaining 12,37,828 (50.03 pc) skipped the exam.
This also implied that a sum of around Rs 6 crore was deposited by the candidates—fee at a rate of Rs 100 per form.
SSC charges Rs 100 from each candidate while women, SC/ST and ex-servicemen are exempted. Among the total candidates, maximum 9,47,864 belonged to the OBC category. Additionally, 5,83,421 were from unreserved category along with 5,34,968 from SC, 2,18,875 from ST and 1,88,902 from economically weaker section (EWS), according to SSC data.
Eliminating SC/ST candidates from the count, around 17.20 lakh applicants (69.51 pc) had submitted the required fee. Assuming that 50 pc of these fee-paying candidates were absent on the exam day, the number exceeds 8.5 lakh.
Although the exact count of female and ex-servicemen candidates remains undisclosed, assuming their numbers to be around 25 pc, which totals around 2 lakh, it implies that the remaining 6.5 lakh, who paid the fee at a rate of Rs 100 per candidate, resulted in a fee collection exceeding Rs 6 crore but did not appear for the recruitment exam. The SSC data reveals that the Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) Exam-2023, held on August 17, also saw a significant number of candidates skipping the examination. Out of the total 32,35,474 candidates, who had registered, 12,63,090 (approximately 39 pc) appeared for the examination while 19,72,384 (around 61 pc) skipped the exam.
