Despite lawyers' strike, judicial officers must discharge duty: HC

Taking a serious note of continuous strike in district courts causing hardship to litigants, the Allahabad high court has expressed the view that even if there is strike by lawyers, the judicial officers must discharge their judicial function.

- HT Correspondent

PRAYAGRAJ:

If litigants want to argue their cases, the district administration, in consultation with the district judge, must provide police protection, the high court said.

Hearing a writ petition filed by one Ashutosh Kumar Pathak, Justice Ajit Kumar said, "No one can be rendered remedy-less for lawyers sitting on strike.

The court is also of the considered view that no lawyer can restrain a judicial officer from discharging judicial function, nor can lawyers restrain any litigant from entering the courts of law."