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| Lawyers observe strike | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 19- Work in all the courts in Jammu was affected today after lawyers decided to stay away from work protesting changes being made to the Indian Penal Code.
"The work in all the Courts remained suspended as the Bar Association Jammu has decided to abstain from working in Courts in support of the strike call given by Bar Association of India," President, Jammu Bar Association, Sunil Sethi said in a statement.
"Bar Association of India has decided to go on strike against amendment in India Penal Code and we have decided to support their call," Sethi added.
Meanwhile, Lawyers in the northern states, including Delhi went on a day-long strike in the district courts demanding withdrawal of the proposed changes in the Cr PC that gives police the discretion to arrest the accused in an offence punishable up to seven year jail term.
This is the third time that lawyers' bodies have observed a strike within two weeks in the national capital. They had earlier been on strike on January 7 and 14.
"There is complete strike in all northern states including Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh," Co-ordination Committee All Bar Association of Delhi spokesman Rajiv Khosla said.
"Lawyers abstained from appearing in the courts while the cases listed for today were being adjourned," he said. The bar leaders fear that the proposed amendment doing away with the mandatory arrest provisions in the offences punishable up to seven years would remove fear from minds of criminals who would misuse the provisions under the garb of personal liberty.
According to the proposed amendments in the Act, which had received the President's assent, no arrest would be required for cognizable offences such as molestation, dowry harassment and attempt to robbery, prescribing maximum punishment of seven years' jail term. |
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