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| End discrimination with J&K lawyers: Bhim Singh | | "So-called Bar Council of J&K must be de-recognized without any delay" | | early times report
Jammu, Feb 7: Senior executive member of the Supreme Court Bar Association Prof Bhim Singh Thursday made an appeal to the Bar Council of India for its urgent intervention to end 40 years old "discrimination" with the lawyers' fraternity of J&K.
In a letter to the Chairman of the Bar Council of India, Manan Kumar Mishra, Prof Singh said, "Let the so-called Bar Council of J&K be derecognized without any delay. The steps must be taken to hold elections in accordance with the Advocates Act (as amended) for the Bar Council of J&K."
Prof Singh was special invitee to the meeting of Bar Council of India held today in connection with the celebration of '50 Years of Golden Jubilee of the Bar Council of India.'
He expressed deep concern that mandate of the Constitution of India has not been extended to J&K which amounts to discrimination. "I would like to bring our concern to the notice of the Bar Council of India that J&K has not been included in the list of Bar Councils of the States. J&K has created so-called Bar Council headed by the Chief Justice of J&K High Court with the High Court Judges as the members of the J&K Bar Council. There could be no reason or justification to deprive the advocates in J&K of their fundamental right to elect and constitute the Bar Council in the State as is being constituted in other states of the country. I have been agitating this issue for the past 40 years without any response either from the Govt. of India or from the Bar Council of India. This Act on the part of the Govt. of India or Bar Council of India amounts to discrimination with the entire lawyers' fraternity of J&K," he said.
"I also would like to point out that the angry intelligentsia/advocates/ politicians have been maligned as separatists in J&K. The fact is, that it be the Union of India, Parliament and the power that be responsible to keep the J&K away from the mainstream. The wrong must be cured in the interest of national integration, unity and sovereignty of the nation. The Parliament has abandoned its authority, under Article 370, to legislate in respect of J&K even when the State stood integrated in 1947. J&K has been kept out of the domain of the Constitution of India. The Constitution of J&K has not chapter on fundamental rights though J&K became integral part in 1947," Prof Singh claimed. |
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