HC initiates contempt proceedings against Bar associations for boycott call
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The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday initiated suo motu proceedings against office-bearers of a few of the Bar associations in Davangere and Mandya districts for giving calls for abstaining from courtroom proceedings.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum handed the order paying attention to stories submitted by the courtroom’s registry on the situations of advocates boycotting courtroom proceedings in numerous taluk courts and the district courts in Mandya on numerous dates between January 4 and February 8.
The Bench famous that the Bar associations gave a call for abstaining from courtroom proceedings even after the Chief Justice on February 3 made an open attraction to all of the Bar associations throughout the State to not resort to boycotting the courtroom proceedings no matter genuineness of the trigger.
Apart from the truth that prima facie the acts of the Bar associations in Mandya and Davangere districts quantity to felony contempt of courtroom within the gentle of the apex courtroom’s judgements, the calls given for boycotting courtroom proceedings brought on struggling to the litigants in addition to advocates at a time when the courts are returning to regular proceedings after going through difficulties for months owing to COVID-19, the Bench noticed.
Citing judgments of the apex courtroom declaring that the “lawyers have no right to go on strike or give a call for boycott, not even on a token strike”, the Chief Justice had reminded the members of the Bar associations in his February 3 letter that abstaining from or boycotting courtroom proceedings quantities to interference with the administration of justice.
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