Kalahandi lawyers demand HC bench in west Orissa

The Pioneer, Aug 27, 2007
Bikash Khemka | Bhawanipatna

A meeting was organised on Sunday in the court premises by the Kalahandi Bar Council demanding the establishment of a Circuit Bench in western Orissa.

President of the district Bar Council Jagannath Mund said that a call for bandh on August 31 has been given in western Orissa demanding the Circuit Bench.

All political parties and elected members of western Orissa have been supporting the cause since long but it still remains to be materialised. So the Bar Associations of western Orissa have decided to observe August 31 as Chetawani Diwas, Mund said.

It was decided in a meeting on August 19 at Sambalpur that the Bar Associations of western Orissa will boycott the court works on the last Wednesday of every month till the demand is fulfilled.

In the coming Assembly session all the western Orissa Bar Associations will demonstrate in front of the Assembly and a memorandum will be submitted to the Speaker.

All the MLAs and Ministers would be requested to be present in the rally, Mund added.

"Poor people of western Orissa hesitate to file a case in the High Court only because it is expensive," Mund said.