Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: A meeting of the Advisory Committee of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association Jammu was held today.
The meeting was presided over by Vikram Sharma, Senior Advocate and President of J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu and was attended by the members of the Advisory Committee including Senior Advocates and Former Bar Presidents/office-bearers.
The meeting was primarily convened to deliberate upon the issue of shifting of courts to Raika and also the issue of an attempt to create a parallel bar by a group of members. The members thoroughly deliberated upon the issues and after detailed discussions, all the members came to a unanimous decision that the J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, is not opposed to the infrastructural development in the form of construction of the courts at Raika.
The members were unanimous that the Association owes a responsibility towards the new entrants and those aspiring to ensure a better state-of-the-art working environ for them. It was stressed by all the members that with the legal profession now being one of the most sought-after professions across the globe, the average annual law graduates in Jammu itself crosses several hundreds and therefore makes it imperative for a proportionate regular infrastructural growth.
Most of the members stressed that the Distt/Subordinate Courts, CAT, the Tribunals and the Sub-Registrars under the Registration Act, should also be accommodated in Raika and asked the elected team headed by President to persuade those at the helm to redress such genuine demand of the member Advocates.
The members also discussed media reports regarding objection to shifting of High Court to Raika and said, “Bar Association had not issued any such statement”. With respect to the attempt by some members to create a parallel body of member Advocates and wrongfully involving the names of senior members of the Bar , the Advisory Committee took serious view of the matter and resolved that members are governed by the constitution of the Association and any deviance touching indiscipline shall be viewed seriously and dealt with accordingly.
The meeting thus ended with a resolution to take up the matter of shifting of Distt Courts/ Subordinate Courts, CAT, Sub-Registrars and Tribunals to Raika too in approachable locations so that the lawyers and litigants could have an access to the justice dispensation system in an era of justice-at-doorsteps and further resolved that the same should be followed vigorously by submitting a memorandum in the regard.
Those who attended the meeting physically and expressed their views telephonically include Ved Raj Wazir (Senior Advocate and Former President), D K Khajuria (Former President), S D S Saini (Former President), Sunil Sethi (Senior Advocate and Former President), Surinder Singh (Former Bar President), L K Sharma (Senior Advocate), Surinder Kour (Senior Advocate), U K Jalali (Senior Advocate), K S Johal (Senior Advocate), R.K Jain (Senior Advocate), Pranav Kohli (Senior Advocate), C S Gupta, D S Chouhan, Rajesh Kotwal, Ajay Sharma, Kishore Kumar, Ravinder Sharma, Sanjay Kakkar, Sudershan Sharma, Rupinder Singh, Choudhary Mohd. Anwar, Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, Ajay Singh Manhas, Anil Kumar Bargotra, Mandeep Reen, Deepika Mahajan, Rozina Afzal, Baldev Singh (Jr.), Meharban Singh, Amit Chopra, Rohit Sharma (President YLA Ex-officio Member)
The other Advocates who were present included Ved Bharat, Daljeet Singh Manhas, Sushant Sharma, Parvez Choudhary, Aditya Chopra, Goutam Gambhir and Supriya Chouhan.
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