STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu under the leadership of its President M.K Bhardwaj, Sr. Adv. held a protest in the District Court Complex, Janipur, here wherein all the office bearers namely Mohinder Pal Singh Pali, Vice President, Surjeet Singh Andotra, General Secretary, Aditya Sharma, Joint Secretary & Amandeep Singh, Treasure besides many senior & young lawyers participated in support of their demands.
They sought revocation of the order of shifting of Debt Recovery Tribunal to Chandigarh and creation of Five Benches of the Central Administrative Tribunal in the U.T. of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh for the smooth functioning and also raised the demand for shifting of the CAT Bench in the court premises Jammu.
They also demanded for restoration of physical hearing of Central Administrative Tribunal Bench, shifting of Sub Registrar offices in Court premises, establishment of Consumer Forums in the Court premises and establishment of Consumer Commission and Human Rights Commission.
Bhardwaj, while addressing the protest, urged upon the Government to immediately resolve all the aforesaid demands of the legal fraternity of UT of J&K, so as to give relief to the legal fraternity as well as civil society.
In the event of failure to do the needful, the JKHCBA, Jammu, shall be left with no other option except to launch an agitation in support of their demands, he said.
Bhardwaj urged upon the Central Government as well as UT administration to immediately resolve long pending demands/ issues of lawyers fraternity.
The other members who spoke in the Dharna include Mohinder Pal Singh Pali, Vice President, Surjeet Singh Andotra General Secretary, H.C. Jalmeria, Babu Ram Sharma, Nirmal Singh Kotwal, Usman Salaria, Abrar Khan and Rohit Sharma.
The proceedings of the Dharna was conducted by Surjeet Singh Andotra, General Secretary.