The Bar Association of Baleswar on Thursday submitted a charter of demands to the District Judge addressed to the Chief Justice of High Court.
The members condemned the police assault on a lawyer of Bhubaneswar and demanded a judicial probe into
the incident.
The bar association also demanded filling up of the posts, including those of three judicial magistrates and a special magistrate, in the district, which are lying vacant for more than 14 months.
The bar pointed out that as many as over 32,000 cases are pending in different courts of the district.
The bar also demanded immediate arrest of the miscreants who attacked a Baleswar lawyer near Naharpatna a few days ago while he was returning
from Baripada.
“We demand judicial probe into the brutal police attack on the Bhubaneswar advocate and the assault on Baleswar lawyer Satya Prakash Dash,” said bar association executive member Jitendra Upadhyay.
Association secretary Manoj Nayak said, “We have given two weeks’ time to act on our demands, after which we may resort to cease-work.”
Association president Niranjan Panda and vice-president Nrusingha Charan Nayak were also present at a meeting held on Thursday.