Members of Ganjam Bar Association took out a bike rally in
Berhampur as part of their plan to intensify their continuing stir for the
demand of establishment of a permanent bench of Odisha High Court for South
Odisha in Berhampur city.
All senior lawyers of the bar association, including its
past office bearers led this bike rally. The bike rally started from the
Berhampur court premises and traveled around the city to re-strengthen public
support for the demand for establishment of High Court bench. President of the
Ganjam Bar Association Kapileswar Patnaik said this rally was aimed at
increasing public awareness regarding this genuine demand.
The lawyers of the Ganjam Bar Association claimed that
Berhampur, as per the norms put forward by Jaswant Singh Commission report
regarding establishment of High Court benches, was the most suitable place for
a permanent bench of Odisha High Court. “As per the Yashwant Singh Commission
report a permanent bench of the High Court should be established in revenue
divisional headquarters and Berhampur and Sambalpur are divisional
headquarters. Moreover Berhampur has all infrastructural facilities for proper
functioning of a bench of the High Court,” said senior lawyers of the Bar
Association.
Conspiracy
President of Ganjam Bar Association came down sharply on
this mushrooming demand for establishment of demand for High Court bench from
different places of south Odisha. “I feel the sudden mushrooming of such
demands from different places may be a conspiracy to weaken the issue of
establishment of High Court benches in different revenue divisions of the
State,” Mr. Patnaik said.
As per the Ganjam Bar Association, their demand for
establishment of permanent bench of Odisha High Court in Berhampur had started
in 1985 and their demand was older than that of Sambalpur Bar Association of
western Odisha. Although during past decades there were no such demands for
establishment of High Court benches in any other part of south Odisha, all of a
sudden such demands have started to crop up, which makes us smell something
fishy, said Mr Patnaik. Source: The Hindu
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