Work in five district courts here was paralysed on Wednesday as lawyers struck work demanding repeal of an amendment made to the CrPC, giving police the freedom to use their discretion on whether to arrest or not arrest an accused in offences punishable up to seven-year jail term.
Work in five district courts here was paralysed on Wednesday as lawyers struck work demanding repeal of an amendment made to the CrPC, giving police the freedom to use their discretion on whether to arrest or not arrest an accused in offences punishable up to seven-year jail term.
"There is a complete strike in all district courts in the national capital. Advocates are not appearing in court cases listed for today while the courts are adjourning matters to next dates," Delhi Bar Association Secretary Jaiveer Singh Chauhan said.
The decision to go on strike at Patiala House, Tis Hazari, Karkardooma, Rohini and Dwarka courts was taken yesterday at a meeting of Co-ordination Committee All Bar Associations of Delhi.
The Committee disapproved the amendments made to the CrPC whereby the deterrent provisions of law of making arrest mandatory in cognisable offences punishable up to seven years imprisonment has been done away with while giving wide powers to police to arrest or not to arrest.
A meeting of all bar associations of the National Capital Region (NCR) is going to be held tomorrow to decide the future course of action, Chauhan said.
The Co-Ordination Committee spokesperson Rajiv Khosla and New Delhi Bar Association President Santosh Mishra claimed that the strike is successful.
Early in the day, some advocates appeared in the courts but both bar leaders tried to play down their decision to defy the strike call. They said that since the decision to strike was taken late in the evening, everyone among the legal fraternity could not be intimated about it.
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