Summary:
DUMKA: Lawyers of the district bar association expressed their reservations against the state government's delay in setting up a high court bench in Dumka. "The union law ministry in reply to my question asked in the parliament said there were no such proposals for setting up high court benches in Jharkhand or elsewhere pending before it" Dubey had stated in media recently. They formed High Court bench sthapna sangharsh samiti in a meeting of the district bar association on Friday for this purpose.State Bar Council member and former district president of the district bar association Gopeshwar Prasad Jha said the sangharsh samiti was formed to mobilize the lawyers practising in different district and sub-divisional courts of Santhal Pargana. "The demand for setting up a high court bench dates back to the undivided Bihar but the respective state governments remained reluctant towards the matter even after one and a half decade," Jha said adding any further delay in that regard only amounted to the denial of justice to a vast section of local litigants.He said most of the litigants from Santhal Pargana cannot afford the cost of approaching the Ranchi High Court . "Poverty coupled with the distance between Santhal Pargana and Ranchi ultimately discourage them to a great extent in moving ahead for appealing against the judgments delivered by the district courts" Jha who has been made one of the convener of the lawyers' body.The strategy for the agitational recourse will be chalked out on August 22 when office bearers of the district bar associations participate.tnnThe proposal for the high court bench in Dumka, for which the land has already been acquired by the district administration, was approved in the maiden meeting of the Raghubar Das cabinet which was supposed to be sent to the union law ministry for approval.Godda BJP MP fueled the lawyers anguish recently by revealing that no such proposal was sent by the Jharkhand government to the union law ministry..