The lawyers’ boycott of all court works here in civil courts Daltonganj entered its seventh day on Sunday and the Jharkhand High Court has taken cognizance of this week long stir. It has taken initiative to invite office bearers of the Palamu district bar association to the Ranchi Court on Monday.
Secretary of the bar association here Subodh Kumar Sinha said, “Here the Honourable Court means the Chief Justice and so our office bearers will be meeting the Chief Justice on Monday.”
Registrar Establishment HC Ranchi Akhil Kumar has sent a letter to this effect to the president of the bar association here requesting president of the bar association here to send in a delegation of office bearers to Hon’ble Court in Ranchi on February 24.
The registrar establishment’s letter did not mention any boycott of all court works by the lawyers here, nevertheless, it says the February 24 visit of the office bearers of the bar association in Hon’ble Court Ranchi will be in connection with what the bar association is facing over the past few days. President of the bar association here Sachidanand Tiwary alias Sachidanand Nehru who is a very senior lawyer here and commands respect in the legal fraternity said, “We have received the letter from registrar establishment. Our delegation will go to Hon’ble Court on Feb 24 in Ranchi.”
Sinha said, “We will take a decision as to who will represent us. On coming back from there we will again sit here with our esteemed lawyers and discuss the development and then take a final call.”
Nehru said “All the lawyers unanimously decided to boycott all court works here from Feb 15 in protest against the most sad and tragic behavior and attitude of a senior judge Pankaj Kumar.”
Nehru said it was he who became the victim of his unwarranted and unprovoked wrath which had hurt him and his dignity too much and the lawyers too have felt extremely bad about what was meted out to him by the senior judge.
As there is no spokesperson here in the civil courts the Pioneer could not get the version of the Bench on this issue and so it goes with Bar’s version.
State Bar Council too had rushed in here a 3 member team on a fact finding mission which met the bar, the concerned judge etc and went back said a lawyer here refusing to be identified.
The Pioneer did try to meet one of the members of the fact finding team of State Bar Council which reached here M A K Rashidi who politely declined to share anything in this regard with the media person.The stir of the lawyers has crippled entire legal works here in the courts. Clients are too uncertain as to when this deadlock will end. Bail seekers are thoroughly disappointed. SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta said this lawyers’ boycott of the courts has affected police’s move to get statement recorded under section 164 of CrPC.