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Hans India
26-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Resolve long pending issues, demand lawyers
Kurnool: Advocates staged a protest at the Kurnool Bar Association premises on the call of the Indian Association of Lawyers (IAL) State Committee, demanding resolution of long pending issues faced by the legal fraternity. The demonstration was organised under the leadership of IAL State vice-president K Ranganath here on Friday IAL State Bar Council member P Ravi Guevara participated in the event as the chief guest. Kurnool Bar Association president Harinath Chowdary, IAL district leaders B Chandrudu, former Bar Association presidents M Subbaiah and Omkar also attended the programme. Speaking on the occasion, they emphasised that the protest was launched to highlight the concerns of advocates and press for urgent remedial action. The key demands put forth include an increase in the Advocate Welfare Fund from the existing Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. They also urged the government to raise the matching grant from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. The protesting advocates demanded the enactment of an Advocates Protection Bill in response to the rising incidents of attacks on lawyers across the country. They further sought the issuance of health cards to all advocates, a monthly stipend increase for junior advocates from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000, and the allocation of house sites to eligible members of the legal community. The leaders warned that if these demands are not addressed promptly, the legal fraternity would intensify their agitation across the State. District general secretary B S Ravikanth Prasad, treasurer P Dastagiri, district vice-president Shafi. senior and junior advocates, including G. Srinivasulu, Sai Veeru, Tippu Sultan, E. Rajesh Ali Basha, Jagadish, Paparao, Mahesh, Madiga Lawyers Federation district president Prabhakar and Nithyajeevan Raju participated.
New Indian Express
08-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Delhi High Court directs govt to enact Advocates Protection Bill
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the city government to promptly take further steps to enact the Advocates Protection Bill in the capital. 'Let the GNCTD take expeditious steps for enacting the bill,' the court said. According to a status report filed by the Delhi government's law department in September 2024, the final draft of the Bill is currently pending consideration before the Council of Ministers, awaiting a policy decision on its enactment and implementation. However, a copy of the draft is yet to be shared with the Coordination Committee of All District Courts Bar Associations of Delhi. The Committee consequently moved an application seeking a direction from the high court to compel the Delhi government to share the draft with them. On April 21, Justice Sachin Datta ordered the Delhi government to provide the Committee with a copy of the draft Bill. 'The limited request of the applicant is that the final draft of Advocate Protection Bill, 2024 be provided to them... to give any representation that they seek to with regard to the provisions. The GNCTD is directed to provide a draft of the Advocate Protection Bill, 2024 to the applicant,' the court directed.
Indian Express
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Take steps to enact Advocates Protection Bill expeditiously, high court tells Delhi govt
The Delhi High Court recently told the Delhi government to take 'expeditious steps, as may be deemed expedient' for enacting the Advocates Protection Bill. Justice Sachin Datta gave these directions on April 21 while hearing a petition being filed by advocates Deepa Joseph and Alpha Phiris Dayal seeking direction for the Centre and the Delhi government to consider enacting the Advocates Protection Bill in Delhi. According to a status report filed by the Delhi government on September 9, 2024, the final draft of the Advocates Protection Bill, 2024. has been prepared by the Law Department, and this draft is required to be considered by the Council of Ministers. However, a copy of this draft was not provided to the applicants who had approached the high court seeking a copy. 'In the circumstances, the present application is allowed. The GNCTD (Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi) is directed to provide a draft of the Advocate Protection Bill, 2024 to the applicant,' said the high court. It also directed the Delhi government to file a fresh status report by May 28. As per the Delhi government, the Bill will require approval from the Council of Ministers, after which it will be referred to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi for approval. Through an order passed on May 25, 2023, the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi government to file a status report in relation to the first draft of Delhi Advocates Protection Bill, which was prepared by the coordination committee (of all district court bar associations). This draft was sent to the law minister and chief minister of Delhi. The Law Department prepared the final draft of the Bill after this. The draft prepared by the coordination committee recommended police protection, compensation, protection of action in due conduct of duties by advocates, protection from illegal arrests, and the formation of grievance redressal committees. Advocate K C Mittal is representing this committee in court and advocate Nagendra Kumar is its chairman. 'Now we are going to get to see the bill…this will be the future of lawyers' safety. This was long overdue. We put in a lot of effort to prepare the draft,' said Mittal, who helped the committee draft the bill. He also told The Indian Express that Rajasthan is the only state in the country which has enacted a law granting protection to advocates. In Delhi's courts, news of assaults on advocates surface now and then, making the Bill a ubiquitous demand. Some of them are listed below. • In October, Saket Court Bar Association members held a strike to protest an alleged attack on advocates in a nursery near Qutub Metro station. • In July 2023, around eight-ten shots were fired inside Tis Hazari Court by two groups of lawyers after an argument broke out between them over parking space and misuse of the bar's funds. • Advocate Virender Kumar, 51, who practised in Dwarka Court, was shot dead by two assailants on a bike in Dwarka Sector 1 in April last year. In the same month, shots were fired at a woman in Saket Court premises by a suspended lawyer. • Two armed men posing as lawyers killed gangster Jitender Maan alias Gogi inside a courtroom in Rohini before being gunned down by police personnel in October 2021.
