*Condemns Pak Assembly resolution
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 14: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Jammu today urged the Government to strengthen the Village Defence Committees (VDCs) in order to encourage the nationalist forces, who have always stood by the nation in the odd and tough situations and countered the anti-national elements without caring for any threat or fear.
“The demand of disbanding VDCs, which is anti-national approach, needs to be rejected by all Indians including the Central as well as State Government”, the members of the Bar Association said unanimously in a meeting held under the chairmanship of its president Senior Advocate MK Bhardwaj.
It was stressed upon the Government to assess the actual loss of the traders in Kishtwar and elsewhere in Jammu region and disburse compensation so that they can be rehabilitated at the earliest and restart their normal life. Further, it was called upon the Government to immediately appoint the Judge to head Judicial Commission, so that the Commission can start its proceedings in order to prevent destroying or tampering of the evidences by anybody.
The Bar also condemned the resolution passed in Pakistan Assembly whereby Indian forces have been blamed for violation of ceasefire on Line of Control despite the fact that all the ceasefire violations have been committed by the Pakistani forces.
The Bar has appealed that any person having any grievance with regard to legal issues in the wake of recent incidents, to approach any of its office bearers or members to seek free legal aid, help and assistance.
The Bar has also appealed to the administration to issue instructions to the security agencies to treat the identity cards of the advocates as curfew passes so as to avoid any inconvenience to them in attending Independence Day celebrations at High Court complex.
The meeting was attended by Ranjit S Jamwal (general secretary), Prem N Sadotra (joint secretary), B S Slathia (former Bar President), D S Chouhan, Rupinder Singh, Ajay Gandotra, Minu Koul, Kishore Kumar, Rajinder Singh Jamwal, R.S Durswal, Ashwani Kumar, R S Jamwal, Rajesh Thappa, (former general secretary), Ajay Gandotra, Baldev Singh, Naresh Sharma, Ashwani Khajuria, Sudershan Sharma, Vikas Sharma, Dharamvir, Ajay Bakshi, Rohit Gupta, Sachin Dogra, Divya Ishan, Sachin Gupta, Vasu Dubey, Nitin Sambyal, Koushal Parihar, Pardeep Gupta, Daljit Manhas and Tarun Gupta.
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