The Bezawada Bar Association (BBA) has passed a unanimous resolution for boycott of duties by advocates for a week from Monday as part of their agitation for establishment of High Court in Andhra Pradesh.
It demanded that the High Court of Andhra Pradesh should preferably start functioning in the Capital region as and when the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh Bar Council are bifurcated. Like most other High Courts are situated in the State Capitals, the High Court of AP should also be set up around Vijayawada and Guntur where the Legislative Assembly and Secretariat will be coming up, BBA members said at the general body meeting held at the Civil Courts here on Monday.
Addressing the gathering, senior advocate K. Rammohan Rao said it was imperative that the HC should be established in A.P. for delivering justice at the doorsteps of people instead of retaining the separate HC in Hyderabad. Bar Associations of the 13 districts should make a concerted effort to achieve the goal in right earnest if the legal fraternity of AP were to escape from the insults that have been heaped on them by Telangana advocates, he said.
Andhra Pradesh Bar Council member S. Rajendra Prasad said the seeds of hatred that were sown by Telangana advocates against their counterparts in A.P. should not be allowed to bear fruit. It was shameful that a section of the Telangana advocates assaulted judges belonging to A.P. in their quest for separate HC.
