IMPHAL, Nov 7: The High Court Bar Association, Manipur (HCBA) has on Wednesday decided to abstain from attending the Court from forenoon of Thursday saying that the absorption of Judges appointed from other states in the Manipur High Court will amount to deprivation of rights of the deserving advocates and Judicial officers in the State.
The decision was taken during an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee, HCBA associated with senior members and invitees held at the office of the bar association under the chairmanship of N Kumarjit Singh, president HCBA.
The meeting took five resolutions wherein the resolution No. 1 decided to request the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court, the Prime Minister, Union Law and Justice and the Chief Minister not to appoint other judges in the Gauhati High Court from other states except the two appointed from Manipur and they should be absorbed as Judges in the High Court of Manipur, HCBA president Kumarjit told a press conference held at the office of the bar association.
It was also unanimously resolved that by way of pressing the demands of the bar as reflected in the resolution No.1 above, the members of the bar association will abstain from attending the Court with effect from the forenoon of November 8 until further resolution or until the demands are fulfilled, he said.
It was further resolved that a copy of the resolution will be submitted to the Chief Justice of India as well as the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court through the Registrar, High Court, Imphal Bench for placing the same before the two Chief Justices.
The same demands were pressed by the bar association by means of democratic agitation launched in the months of June and July this year but the strike was suspended on the assurance given by the then Union minister of Law and Justice, Salman Khurshid.
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