VIJAYAWADA: High Court chief justice Nisar Ahmed Kakru expressed his dissatisfaction over lawyers boycotting courts to bring press..
VIJAYAWADA: High Court chief justice Nisar Ahmed Kakru expressed his dissatisfaction over lawyers boycotting courts to bring pressure on governments to get their demands settled.
Addressing advocates after inaugurating the new bar association hall here on Sunday, he said boycotting the courts would make the clients suffer and lose confidence in the institution of law. Saying that there were so many legal systems for redress of grievances or getting demands met, he referred to the boycott of courts by lawyers in Telangana for statehood and the twomonthlong agitation by lawyers in Vijayawada seeking establishment of a High Court bench in the region. He recalled that when he was the chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir, lawyers in that state had boycotted the courts for two months. When he was in the court room he was asked to come out but he stayed inside.
"I have seen lawyers boycott courts but never joined them because I was guided by my conscience,'' he said and reminded lawyers that they were working in the courts and were, by profession, lawyers.Referring to the chief justice's remarks on the boycott of courts by lawyers in Vijayawada, senior advocate Karnati Ramamohan Rao said establishment of a High Court circuit bench between Vijayawada and Guntur had been promised and hanging fire for several decades. Such circuit benches were established at Aurangabad in Maharashtra and other places in Karnataka and elsewhere, he recalled and appealed to the chief justice to ensure establishment of a High Court bench between Vijayawada and Guntur under Clause of 51/3, by which the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court was set up within no time.
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