Advocates Strike Update: Chairman Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana issues statement
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ September 27,2023
Ashok Singla, Chairman, Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana has announced the council’s decision of withdrawal of their strike.
The chairman has asked the advocates to resume their work immediately after their demands were met by the Punjab government.
The Bar Council on Punjab and Haryana (BCPH) were on strike in the courts of two states and Chandigarh in protest against the alleged torture of a Muktsar lawyer in police custody.
The statutory body with 1.3 lakh members across two states and Chandigarh; and with regulatory control over all the bars, had given a call to strike work on Monday due to which work remained suspended in the courts of both the states and Chandigarh.
The district police on Monday night registered an FIR — three days after a court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Muktsar had ordered them to do so — against Muktsar SP (Detective) Ramandeep Singh Bhullar, CIA in-charge Inspector Raman Kumar and four CIA staff, including senior constables Harbans Singh and Bhupinder Singh, constable Gurpreet Singh and home guard Dara Singh.
