Lawyers boycotted court works in Ganjam district and staged an agitation here for four days till Saturday demanding establishment of a permanent Bench of the Orissa High Court in Brahmapur, the principal city in south Odisha.
More than a hundred members belonging to the Ganjam District Lawyers’ Association sat on a dharna in front of the Bar Association office in the court premises.
Association president Rabi Panigrahi, vice-president Chitta Ranjan Satpathy, secretary Kailash Panigrahi, joint secretary Kiran Mandal and lawyers Sisir Panigrahi, Nirmal Sahu, Manoj Patnaik, Dr Siva Prasad Mishra, Kapileswar Patnaik, Sudhansu Panda, Pradeep Panda, Pitabash Panda, Pradeep Behera, Ashok Sukla sat on the dharna from 10 am to 4 pm every day.