Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: The work in the High Court as well as Subordinate Courts remained affected on the first day of the two-day strike call given by the Bar Association Jammu in protest against the Tenancy Act.
The lawyers abstained from work in all the courts across the Jammu province in protest against what they alleged anti-people law enacted by the State Government. The premises of all the courts were wearing deserted look as in view of the two-day strike call given by the Bar Association Jammu even litigants don’t turn up.
Meanwhile, Bar Association Jammu convened a meeting of the representatives of the Bar Associations from Districts and Mufasils at Justice (retd) A S Anand Hall in the High Court Complex to discuss the repercussions of the J&K (Residential & Commercial) Tenancy Act, 2012.
Addressing the meeting, Vikram Sharma, general secretary of the Bar Association Jammu, detailed the members about the anti-people provisions of the J&K (Residential & Commercial) Tenancy Act, 2012, and the serious prejudice the same would cause to the people.
He lamented that the Government while enacting the law, divested the Civil Courts of their powers to adjudicate the landlord-tenant disputes which have a peculiarity in terms of legal complexities involved in such disputes. “Vesting of these powers with the Assistant Commissioners and Tehsildars is without any justification and therefore the Act taken in its totality is absolutely draconian and a brutal attempt to scuttle justice to the common masses”, he added.
B S Slathia, President Bar Association Jammu, in his concluding address, informed the members that on his last visit to Kashmir, he held parleys with President Kashmir Bar Association, who also shared his concern over the new tenancy law and decided to abstain from work in protest on the call given by Bar Association Jammu.
He urged the representatives of the different Bar Associations to create awareness amongst the general masses about the ill-effects of the new Act in choking the justice at the hands of bureaucrats. He criticised the State Legislature in not proposing a debate on the pros and cons of the new Act governing tenancy in the State with the lawyers before its enactment.
Mr Slathia said that Bar Association Jammu would chalk out future course of action after the Committee constituted to study the provisions of the Act submits its opinion. He, however, assured the representatives of various Bars that their suggestion of resorting to dialogue with the Government will be acted upon by taking up the issue with the concerned in the Government.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel