Shadow Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12:
Today, J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, responding to the Call given by Bar Council of India and pursuant to the unanimous decision taken in the General House meeting held on Feb 11, 2019 took out a Protest Rally from J&K High Court Complex Janipur, Jammu to Hon’ble Governors’ House in support of the genuine demands put-forth by the Bar Council of India and that of J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu under the Presidentship of Sh. B.S. Slathia, Sr. Advocate, for submission of the Memorandum to Hon’ble President of India & Hon’ble Prime Minister of India through His Excellency the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir State.
In order to take out a successful protest rally, J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu, today abstained from work in all the Courts including the Hon’ble High Court of J&K, Commissions & Tribunal etc While protesting, the lawyers raised slogans in support of the demands. Mr. Slathia, while addressing the protesting lawyers spoke in detail in support of the genuine demands put forth by the Bar Council of India as also the local demands of the Association.
Mr. Slathia along with protesting lawyers submitted Memorandum to the Hon’ble President of India & Hon’ble Prime Minister of India through His Excellency the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir State and urged for the fulfillment of the same.
Mr. Slathia appealed to all the members of the Legal Fraternity of the State to get united for any struggle in future, in case , the above mentioned genuine demands are not fulfilled.
The Bar Associations of all the District of Jammu province have also took out protest rallies in their respective Districts and submitted their Memorandum to the respective Deputy Commissioners in support of the demands of Bar Council of India for submission to the Hon’ble President of India & Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
In this protest march, the office Bearers who participated are namely S/Sh. Sachin Gupta (Vice President), Prem N. Sadotra (General Secretary), Himanshu Sharma (Joint Secretary), Chetan Misri (Treasurer), Mrs. Surinder Kour, Sr. Adv. Former Vice President, . Daljit Singh Manhas ( President YLA) A.K. Sawhney former President, Vikram Sharma, former Gen. Secy., Pardeep Majotra ( former Vice President YLA) Ajat Shatru Sharma, former Vice President, Kathua District Bar Association, besides, S/Sh. C.M. Sharma, Ravinder Sharma, B.R. Chandan, Ajay Sharma, Sarfarz Rather, Pawan Manni, former Gen, Secy, Srishti Paul Mengi, Sandeep Singh, Rajesh Kotwal, Rupinder Singh, S.H. Ashrafi, Monish Chopra, Rohit Bhagat, Mohd Shabir, Vinod Bakshi, Ajay Abrol, Piyush Gupta, Suresh Chander Sharma, J.P. Nanda, Ashwani Khajuria, Bindusaar Abrol, Abhishek Wazir, Surjit Singh Andotra, Nitin Bakshi, Aman Dev Singh, Arun Kandroo, Deepak Basak, Jasbir Jasrotia, Bhanu Singh Bandral, Azhar Khan, Mr.Aman Mahajan, Manik Gupta, Gurdev Singh Thakur, Amit Manhas, Harmit Mehta, Arvind Khajuria, Mohinder Singh Palli, Ajay Kotwal, Rakesh Sharma, Ravi Dogra, Birjesh Badyal, Bhanu Jasrotia, Varun Kotwal, Ghara Kumar, Atul Raina, Pardeep Gupta, Kamal Magotra, Arujun Singh Manhas, Rohan Singh, Dharmavir Khajuria, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Sushil Chandel, Suraj Singh, Amit Sharma, Sahil Anand. sheesh Kant Sharma, Sushant Samnotra, Pulkit Churango, Virkaran Choudhary, Abhishek Dogra, Anjit Sarkaria, Sachin Dev Singh, Rajiv Chargotra, Kunal Kohli, Arjun Singh Manhas, Sorabh Dewan, Vikas , Divya Ishan, Suraj Padha and many others also participated in the protest rally.
