Bar undertakes to abide by apex court verdict on lawyers’ strike
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court to abide by its verdict on lawyers’ strike.
In August, the apex court took suo motu cognisance of the July 26 strike in the Punjab and Haryana High Court when lawyers abstained from work, causing disruption of court proceedings. It had issued notices to the high court bar association, questioning their conduct.
However, a Bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice AG Masih on Friday chose to close the matter after an undertaking given by the bar association.
“A fresh undertaking on behalf of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has been filed by Jasdev Singh Brar, acting president, which records that at a fresh executive committee meeting called on December 19, all members of the executive committee agreed to the undertaking already filed by the acting president,” the Bench said.
“No further directions are required to be issued and we treat the case as closed with a clear direction that the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association shall continue to be bound by the undertakings. Copies of this order as well as earlier order dated December 13 be forwarded to the Registrar General of the Punjab and Haryana High Court,” it said, closing the proceedings.
