NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi, Nov 19
The Lawyers on indefinite strike today roped in the seniors for leading the further course of action on the controversial issues of shifting away of the High Court and of divesting the Registration work from the Judicial Officers and assigning the same to the Revenue Officers.
After deliberations by the executive committee of the Bar, it was unanimously decided to constitute an Advisory Committee which will guide and decide the further course of action as per the decision of General House and accordingly the advisory committee comprising of S/Sh. D.K. Khajuria Advocate, V.R. Wazir Sr. Advocate, D.S. Saini Advocate, Surinder Singh Advocate, Sunil Sethi Sr. Advocate, all former Presidents of J&K High Court Bar Association Sh. U.K. Jalali Sr. Advocate, former Advocate General J&K State, Sh. K.S. Johal Sr. Advocate, Ms. Surinder Kour Sr. Advocate, Rajesh Kotwal Advocate former Vice President J&K High Court Bar Association, M.U. Salaria former Vice President, J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu and S. Rupinder Singh Advocate former General Secretary, J&K High Court Bar Association, was constituted.
The first meeting of the Advisory Committee is scheduled to be held on 18.11.2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the office of J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu. Relying on the clarification as quoted by the Bar Office bearers the Chief Justice of J&K High Court has made it clear that there was no formal decision / proposal to Shift J&K High Court from Janipur to Raika.
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the second demand is concerned the Chief Secretary of J&K UT had a meeting with the office bearers of J&K High Court on 15.11.2019, after the full court reference of demitting the office by Justice Rashid Ali Dar, Judge of J&K High Court, in which, the office bearers of J&K High Court Bar Association strongly projected the demand before the Chief Secretary of J&K UT and after discussion the Chief Secretary directed Financial Commissioner (Revenue) Sh. Pawan Kotwal to hold discussion with the Office bearers of Bar Association and accordingly after telephonic discussion with the Financial Commissioner (Revenue), the meeting of Office Bearers of J&K High Court Bar Association and the members of the advisory Committee is tentatively Scheduled to be held on 18.11.2019 at 12:00 noon.” Press release said.
