Jammu Tawi, Nov 12: The Lawyers Action Committee, Jammu wing of J&K High Court and the Subordinate Courts continued its agitation for 28th day. The lawyers have continuously been protesting against ongoing closure of entry to courts. The protesting lawyers said, “when other spheres of human activity including political, electoral, marriage gatherings, parliament, assemblies, business centres, cinema halls, buses etc. have reopened, keeping the courts closed only seems unreasonable.”
They further said that the virtual hearings are not successful and cannot replace physical hearing. The charter of demands already projected by the lawyers include
1. Opening of all courts for physical entry to lawyers and public, resume physical hearing.
2. Accepting hard copies of cases
3. Opening the locked Bar Rooms of lawyers,
4. Providing stamp papers and tickets within court premises through stamp vendors,
5. Immediately opening of Consumer Courts,
6. Shifting back Registry of Documents to Judicial Officers,
7. Withdrawing contempt initiated against the lawyers,
8. Holding immediate election to the J&K Bar Council.
The committee further added that the lawyers are facing unprecedented hardships in discharging their professional and constitutional functions. They further claimed this closure to be denial of democratic rights to the lawyers. Prominent participants in today's Dharna included: KK Pangotra, MP Gupta, H.C. Jalmeria, SK Anand, CS Gupta, Vinod Abrol, BR Chandan, RS Kotwal, Babu Ram Sharma, SP Bakshi, Kulbhushan Sajgotra, Jugal Kishore, Subodh Jamwal,GS Thakur, Manohar Gupta, Subhash Sharma, Kunal Singh Chib, Meharban Singh, Mohd Rashid, Suneet Jamwal, Jasvinder Singh, Amit Gupta, Harsh Sharma, AM Khan,Yash Pal, Ajay Singh Manhas, Prithvi Raj Drora, Arun Gandotra, Bharat Singh, Satish Sharma, Ravinder Kumar,Jatinder Singh, MP Singh, Atula Raina, Amzi Arthor John, Rahul Singh, Muzaffar Ali Shah.
