Revoke Agri Indebtedness Law 2016: Samrala lawyers

Our Correspondent

Samrala, May 12

The local Bar Association today protested against the alleged anti-public laws passed by the Punjab Government, including the Punjab Agricultural Indebtedness Law 2016. The members of the association, led by their president SK Kalyan, staged a dharna at the main chowk.

They have demanded that the Punjab Agricultural Indebtedness Law 2016 be immediately revoked as it is against poor farmers of the state as well as the general public. Members of the association Harmandeep Singh Guron, NK Sharma, Jaspreet Singh, Lakhvir Singh and Kulwinder Singh addressed the agitators.

They said on one hand the Government of Punjab was telling the general public that justice would be provided to them on their doorstep, but on the other, the government was framing such kinds of laws under which subdivisional-level work was being transferred to the district courts.

The Acts such as Mines and Minerals Act, Family Acts and Commercial Acts are amended in such a way that most work is being transferred to the district level, away from the reach of the general public.

Under the Punjab Agricultural Indebtedness Law, cases regarding loans taken by poor farmers will be decided by tribunals established at the district level.

The members of the association abstained from work against such Acts passed by the Punjab Government. There will be a meeting of the Sub-Divisional Committee constituted by the All-Bar Associations of Punjab on May 13 at Khanna to decide the next course of action.