As the summer heat refuses to abate with day temperatures in the city hovering around 40 degrees Celsius, lawyers have been exempted from wearing “advocates’ gown” at the Calcutta High Court by a direction of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam. - File photo
Kolkata, April 19
As the summer heat refuses to abate with day temperatures in the city hovering around 40 degrees Celsius, lawyers have been exempted from wearing “advocates’ gown” at the Calcutta High Court by a direction of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam.
The Met department has forecast that heatwave or hot and discomforting weather conditions in Kolkata and its surrounding districts will continue for at least the next five days.
An HC notification said upon consideration of the inclement weather combined with heatwave, the Chief Justice has directed that lawyers are exempted from wearing advocates’ gown till the end of the summer vacation to give relief to the lawyers. “Amid the weather, wearing of advocates’ gown is exempted till the Court reopens after vacation on June 10,” the notification said.
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