Lawyers protest govt failure to set up HC bench in Agra

Lawyers in the city today protested Centre`s failure to set up a bench of the Allahabad High Court here.

Agra: Lawyers in the city today protested
Centre`s failure to set up a bench of the Allahabad High Court
here.

The lawyers jammed roads bringing traffic to a halt and
burnt an effigy of Law Minister Veerappa Moily.

They demanded setting up of a bench of Allahabad High
Court here as recommended by Jaswant Singh Commission.

"The Jaswant Singh Commission which had submitted its
report in 1986 had already recommended the setting up of a
bench of the Allahabad High Court for western UP at Agra,"
Arun Solanki, Secretary of the Action Committee for Lawyers
said.

"But the Union Government has been sitting on the report
and has not even placed it on the floor of Parliament. The
report has not been rejected either," he added.

Veerappa Moily had earlier said that various states had
sent incomplete proposals for setting up Benches of High
Courts.

"While requests have been received from some state
governments for creation of Benches of the High Courts away
from the principal seat, no complete proposal has been
received for establishment of a Bench from any state
government," he had said on December 3.

-PTI

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