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| Diamond jubilee of J&K High Court | | EDITORIAL | | It is ironical that at a time when diamond jubilee of the formation of
J&K High Court is being celebrated, with all the fanfare and the
highest constitutional authority of India viz. President and the
judiciary i.e. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court have come all the
way to participate in the celebrations, the lawyers fraternity of
Kashmir, under the aegis of Kashmir Bar Association, has not only
chosen to boycott the event but are also demonstrating against its
celebrations. Forgetting that they are the part and parcel of the
judicial system, the enlightened law practicing community of Kashmir
is acting in a most irresponsible manner, betraying their anti-India
and secessionist mindset. On the other hand the lawyers of Jammu are
continuously abstaining to appear before the judges to plead the cases
of their clients and are on continuous strike for last one month. The
Bar Association of Jammu, which though on strike for last one month,
has decided for its members to participate in the celebrations of the
diamond jubilee of the High Court, going all the way from Jammu to
Srinagar. Jammu lawyers are denying their legal counsel to the
litigants, demanding shifting of the Srinagar sex scandal case to
Jammu, while the lawyers of Kashmir, by boycotting the celebrations of
the diamond jubilee of the High Court, to mark their protest against
the so called human rights violation in Kashmir and alleged forced
occupation of India over Kashmir. Thus the action of the Kashmir Bar
Association has out and out secessionist overtones. While President of
India as well as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India were
delivering their valuable sermons on the judicial system of the
country, with administration of justice to the aggrieved, being its
hallmark, instead of learning a lesson or two from these luminaries,
the members of Kashmir Bar Association are parading in the streets,
shouting slogans against some imaginary grievances. The lawyers who
are obstructing the discharge of basic objective of judicial system,
which provides for opportunity of pleading for his defence through a
legal counsel, the legal councilors are subverting this fundamental
clause of the system of justice administration.
It is no less ironical that the hard core secessionists in Kashmir
whose rights even to preach secession, which normally should not be
granted under the constitution of any country and which should not be
justifiable, is being protected by the Indian judicial system, with
J&K High Court being its organ, have given a call for total shut down
for two days, as a mark of protest against the celebrations of the
diamond jubilee of the High Court. These hard core secessionists very
often knock the door of the High Court, either to seek the bail or to
set aside their detention orders and invariably the Court has been
passing favourable judgements on them, have been acting in a manner,
which betrays their animosity to the Indian judicial system and the
High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. Infact the people of J&K should be
proud of the legacy handed over to them by the Dogra rulers, with
Maharaja Hari Singh constituting the J&K High Court as back as in the
year 1928. The celebration of the diamond jubilee of the High Court,
though delayed for three years due to some unavoidable circumstances,
yet is a highest tribute to the Dogra rulers of the state who built
the foundation of the state on solid constitutional and judicial
pillars.
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