Lawyers to strike on Monday

Lawyers of six district courts in Delhi will abstain from work on Monday in protest against the city government’s decision to increase the number of revenue districts in the Capital from nine to 11.

“The government has not done any exercise for justifying its decision to create two more revenue districts. This is just a colourful exercise on the part of the government, which is unnecessarily wasting public money,” said R N Vats, chairman of the coordination committee of All District Court Bar Associations of Delhi.

Drawing attention to the increased court fees, he said the government has added to the financial burden of the common man, while taking “arbitrary” decisions to increase the number of courts for which hundreds of crores of rupees are being spent.

“The government has failed to understand that the situation has worsened with the formation of nine districts. This has inconvenienced litigants as they have to travel long distances,” he alleged.

Sat Narain Sharma, joint secretary of the committee, said the entire legal community is saddened over the indifferent attitude of the city government towards the litigating public as it has failed to provide a judicial setup in Delhi on the lines of other states and districts in those states.

“The government has not taken care of the fact that the court complex and various quasi-judicial bodies of the same district have been set up at far-off places, causing inconvenience to people,” said committee coordinator Jagdish Vats.