Rourkela lawyers boycott court

-
Rourkela: In response to an all-India strike call given by the Bar Council of India and Odisha State Bar Council, the lawyers of Rourkela here boycotted the court proceedings today and condemned the recent police attack on lawyers in Jaipur and Chandigarh.

The Rourkela Bar Association (RBA) staged a demonstration in front of the ADM office here. The move came after the Bar Council of India issued a notification to the Odisha State Bar Council as well as all bars and courts of the country to support for the cause.

Besides 1200 lawyers of the Rourkela Court stayed out of their work and had participated in the protest. Advocate Ramesh Bal, president of RBA said, “As per the notification from the Bar Council of India, the legal community has participate in the agitation, albeit in a peaceful manner adding that, we strongly condemn the incident of Jaipur and Chandigarh”.

Though the call for strike and protest came to notice from last Friday, it was observed first by lawyers of Cuttack and under the aegis of Odisha State Bar Council and Bar Council of India, the work of all court in Odisha were boycotted today, informed Bal.

The strike is to protest against a police assault on lawyers in Jaipur and Chandigarh. In this regard, a memorandum has been submitted to the Union Law Minister through ADM Rourkela.

Condemning the cause, the RBA has also pressed the administration to put an inquiry committee into this matter and to take necessary actions against the respective policemen.

“Day by day the police people are showing their ‘gundaraj’ over lawyers and their deeds are compared to those days of British Raj in this independent country which is highly condemnable”, said another advocate Rajkishore Pradhan. A rally was also organized by the lawyers of RBA from court premises to the ADM office holding protest.

Other members of RBA such as Baisnavab Charan Maharana, vice-president, Sadananda Sahu, general secretary, Prasant Maharana, joint secretary, Sarat Panda, treasurer, Muralidhar Parija, senior advocate, Santosh Tripathy, Anup Lakra and other lawyers were present on the protest.

It is to be noted that a similar incident had also occurred recently in Cuttack adding problems for common man for many days.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Photos that speak ‘in defence of civilization’

-
Image
Rourkela: ‘A picture says a thousand words’ is an adage that aptly describes photographs by  A N Maniyappan, which were on display at 8 th National Conference of Steel Worker’s Federation of India (SWFI) at Bhanja Bhawan. The 68-year old man from Ernakulam district of Kerela, exhibited his rare photographs and collected ones on the theme ‘In defence of Civilization’. The exhibition featured 400 collections of photographs on a wide range of subjects. The subjects of these photographs are about martyrs’ column, civilization, humanity, golden era of movements, loot of national property, historic moments, anti-communalism, capitalism, imperialism, industrial revolution, trade unionism, and movement against liberalism and steel workers’ movement. The photo exhibition attracted thousands of people in and around the city. “The younger generation learns a lot from this photography and get to understand what had happened in the past,” said a spectator H S Mishra. “Th
Read more

Plus two exams to start from March 1

-
Rourkela: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha today declared that it would conduct Plus Two examinations from March 1 to 30. While examination will be held for all the three streams- Arts, Science and Commerce, exam for vocational education will also be held during the month. Examination for theory papers will be held from March 1 to March 23 and those for practical papers will be held on the rest of the days, informed Yashobant Behera, Controller of Examinations, CHSE. He also informed that the examinations will be conducted in two sittings to accommodate all the students. While around three lakh students are expected to appear in the plus two examinations in the State, examination forms can be filled from January 2 to 21.
Read more

RSP CEO lays stress on profitability

-
Rourkela: Enhancement of profitability and NSR through improved despatch should be the prime objective of the employees, G S Prasad, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) said today during his visit to the units that have achieved the APP targets in the month of November. Accompanied by S N Roy, ED (Works), the CEO went on a visit to the Sinter Plant-II, Pipe Coating Plant, SWPP, Hot Strip Mill and R & C Lab. At each of these departments, Prasad interacted with employees and lauded them for their excellent contribution and discussed about the future endeavours. He laid emphasis on increasing the despatch to maintain profitability of the plant. Employees, on their part, assured the CEO that they would strive further to improve their performance and bring greater glory to the plant.
Read more