Click to play videoChennai: Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has lashed out at the lawyers of Madras High Court for their continued strike.
This is not for the first time that advocates across the country have gone on a rampage. But of late such incidents have become too frequent. Lawyers have paralysed work in the court rooms for reasons like amendments in the criminal procedure code or support for Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The problem has become so serious that the Madras High Court has functioned only for nine days this year. And this has caught the attention of the Chief Justice of India who has clearly expressed his displeasure.
"I condemn the strike by lawyers in Madras and it is very unfortunate and shocking," said Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan.
The apex court has issued a notice to the Madras High Court Bar Association asking why their strike shouldn't be declared illegal. But the lawyers are defiant. Even the Supreme Court lawyers have sympathised with their Chennai colleagues.
"We oppose the police action against the Chennai lawyers in which they have been dragged," said Vice President, Supreme Court Bar Association, Adeesh Agarwal.
In a landmark judgment in 2003, the Supreme Court had declared lawyers' strike to be illegal. It had said that advocates could stay away from work only
in the rarest of rare cases and that too maximum for a day.
It's now two views coming out from the Supreme Court; the judges critical of the strike and the lawyers supporting it.
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