The 22-day agitation by the Puri Bar Association demanding transfer of the SP and the district Collector for deteriorating law and order in the tourist -cum- pilgrim town was called off on the Thursday.
This was announced by association president Bijay Mishra after a general body meeting in presence of steering committee members.
Earlier, local Minister Maheswer Mohanty had tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue.
The lawyers approached all legislators of the district to raise the issue.
The lawyers’ delegate also had met the DGP recently and apprised him of the situation with little effect. BJD leader Sanjay Das Burma arranged a talk with the agitating lawyers’ leaders at Bhubaneswar.
Dasburma assured the lawyers to solve the issue in consultation with the Chief Minister within a fortnight and urged the lawyers to call off the strike.
However, the Bar informed that the strike was only postponed till December16 and in case no development takes place, t would be resumed.
The lawyers would join their work from Friday.