Jammu, 14.07.2023 : In an emergent meeting of the Executive of J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu was convened under the Chairmanship of Sh Vikram Sharma Sr. Advocate and Its President, J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu. In view of the seriousness of the issues, all the member Advocates who were willing to debate participated in the gathering.
In a jam-packed house of approx. 350 Lawyers, the members of the Bar in one voice approved/passed a resolution to pursue with the Hon’ble Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Govt. of UT of Jammu and Kashmir, and Union Law Minister for shifting of all the Subordinate Courts / Tribunals / Central Administrative Tribunals and other Forums along with proposed shifting of High Court at Raika.
The Executive Members fully authorized Vikram Sharma Sr. Advocate, the President of J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu, to take all the steps necessary for representing the cause of the Bar for shifting of subordinate court complex at Raika or in close vicinity of the proposed High Court complex.
It may be recalled that the members of the J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu had moved two requisitions one opposing the shifting of High Court Complex to Raika and another requisition was for shifting of all the Subordinate Courts / Tribunals etc alongwith High Court to Raika.
In a well debated session extending to 4 hours, the senior members of the Bar Association welcomed the coming up of the State of Art proposed High Court Complex at Raika and also suggested shifting of other Courts to same place or a place close to its vicinity at Raika. The requisition against the shifting of High Court Complex at Raika was supported only by 10 members, whereas the full house of the Executive rejected the requisition opposing the shifting of High Court at Raika.
During the meeting the senior members of the Bar in one voice lambasted the ruckus created by the handful of lawyers yesterday in the office of President, J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu, when some members of the bar created indiscipline and a serious view was taken by the members of the Bar. The members of the Bar strongly condemned the indiscipline created by the handful of lawyers. Senior Advocate Mr U.K. Jalali, Mr Sunil Sethi and others took strong note of the ruckus created in the office Chamber of the President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu on 13.07.2023 and sought disciplinary action against the Lawyers who failed to maintain discipline while interacting with the Office Bearers of the Bar Association. There was a complete unanimity in the Executive that such unruly behavior and indiscipline will not be tolerated and the President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu was fully authorized to take disciplinary action against the misconduct created by them.
During the meeting, Sh. Vikarm Sharma, Sr. Advocate, President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu in his emotionally surcharged presidential address assured the members that J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu will take all steps to maintain glory of the bar and sentiments in the bar for shifting all the courts to Raika or to its close vicinity and has already conveyed to the Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh and there is already a positive response from the Hon’ble Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh while he was addressing the August gathering during the foundation stone laying ceremony in presence of His Lordships Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Lt. Governor of UT of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Law Minister wherein the Lord Chief Justice requested for alloting of land in Raika to shift the District Courts / Subordinates Courts etc alongwith High Court in Conventional Centre.
The President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu further submitted that some members of the bar for their certain vested interest have conducted in a manner unbecoming of a members of the prestigious Association and has further submitted that a social media platform is being abused to malign the image of the Bar and its Office Bearers.
The President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu extended full support to all the members of the Bar for maintaining their dignity and for creating healthy atmosphere in the Bar.
Advocate Bhavishya Sudan, during his address in the executive meeting tendered apology for his nasty messages on Whatsapp Group on his behalf and on behalf of other members who have been resorting to such defamatory and derogatory messages and memes. The Senior Members of the Bar in one voice snubbed such members and deprecated unruly behavior of these few lawyers, and, authorized the Office Bearers to proceed against them for their misconduct .
After marathon session of about four hours, the President J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu read out both the requisitions and sought voting by raising hands by the members of the house. All those present in the meeting rejected the requisition moved by Advocate Arvind Bandral seeking opposition to the shifting of the High Court Complex to Raika with only ten votes in his favour, whereas in other requisition moved by Advocate Atul Raina seeking shifting of High Court Complex at Raika alongwith other Courts / Tribunals etc was passed unanimously.
All the speackers except two, asserted that after the orders passed by the NGT and Hon;ble Supreme Court of India, the development of the infrastructure cannot be protested as Judicial order cannot be protested by the professional Lawyers on raods.
It is important to mention here that Senior Members of the Bar, Mr Sunil Sethi, Mr U K Jalali, Mr. D.S. Choudhan, Mr. Sudershan Sharma, Mr Subodh Singh Jamwal in one voice conveyed that strong disciplinary action should be taken as against the lawyers, who yesterday created ruckus in the office of J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu. Sh. Sunil sethi Sr. adv. asserted that the elected President is a fatherly figure for every member irrespective of his age and must be respected by one and all.
The prominent among those present were Former President / Senior Advocates Sh./S. Lila Karan Sharma, Sr. Adv. A.V. Gupta Sr. Adv., Sunil Sethi Sr. Adv. , U.K. Jalali Sr. Adv., D.K. Khajuria, D.R. Khajuria, Abhinav Sharma Sr. Adv., R.K. Jain Sr. Adv., R.K. Kotwal, V.B. Gupta, M.R. Qureshi, Rupinder Singh, D.S. Chouhan, Roop Lal, J.P. Gandhi, Rozina Afzal, Radha Sharma, Seema Sharma, Deepika Mahajan, S.S. Ahmed, Amit Gupta Vice President, Parvesh Singh Salaria, General Secretary, Chetan Misri, Joint Secretary, and Utkarsh Pathania Treasurer, Rohit Sharma (YLA, President), Gagandeep Singh (Lucky) Vice President YLA, Naresh Kumar Treasurer YLA, Choudhary Anwar, H.C. Jalmeria, Sanjay Kakkar, F.A. Natnoo, S.M. Wajahat, Ajay Abrol, Ajay Singh Manhas, P.S. Parmar, Manohar Lal, K.L. Pandita, Anil Sethi, Rakesh Sharma, Sudershan Sharma, M.A. Bhat, K.M. Bhatti, Jasvinder Singh Jassi, Ashwani Khajuria, Subodh Singh Jamwal, Rohit Kohli, Rajesh Verma, G.S. Gill, Jatinder Singh Tikkan, Rajesh Lalotra, Anil Bargotra, Satinder Gupta, Sarfraz Hamid Rather, Ajay Singh Sahi, Akash Gupta, Mohinder Pal Singh Palli, Baldev Singh (Jr), Asheesh Singh Kotwal, Anil Khajuria, Vikukush Anand, Prem Sadotra, Nitin Gupta, Ajay Singh Manhas, Danish Butt, P.S. Parmar, Ajay Singh Kotwal, Matloob Saleem Qureshi, V.S. Saini, Ajay Bakshi, Meharban Singh, Vir Ranshor, Ravinder Kumar, Narinder Sharma, Parimoksh Seth, Dharmavir, Umesh Sharma, Divyaishan, Arvind Bandral, Daljeet Singh Manhas, Rajinder Singh Thakur, Zamir Muslim Qureshi, Sudershan Kumar, Vijay Gupta, Varinder Thakur, Rashid Khan, Irfaan, Khan, Bhanu Partap Singh Bandral, Ravinder Thakur, Ved Bharat Singh, Pardeep Gupta, Amarpal Singh, Ravinder Chib, Pawan Khajuria, Amit Manhas, Harmeet Mehta, Varun Kotwal, Anuj Malhotra, Pankaj Basotra, Jameel Choudhary, Bhavishya Sudan, Moti Sharma, Gourav Sharma, Mohd Zulker Nain Choudhary, Atul Raina, Kamal Magotra, Aditya Sharma, Jyoti Sadotra, Mehrukh Sayden, Supriya Chouhan, Upasana Thakur, Sheikh Saliqa, Aparajita Sharma, Taraiz Khan, Mazher Ali Khan, Mansoor Ahmed, Mehmood Shaad, Sushmant Sanmotra, Kumar Daksheesh Maharaj, Manav Sharma, Ashwani Banotra, Mohd Asif, Sachin Dev Singh, Manjit Singh Sarkaria, Amandeep Sharma, Paramjeet Singh Pardhan, Nakash Sharma, Jattan Singh Gill, Sachin Singh Sarotia, Sarvesh Kotwal, Manoj Kumar, Anubhav Sudan, Nitin Seth, Aman Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Lovely Bhau and many others.
The meeting was concluded by the President with the vote of thanks to the attending members for sparing their time.