Allahabad HC issues criminal contempt notices to 15 Agra lawyers for misbehaviour with judges

AGRA: Taking cognizance of an illegal strike and alleged misbehaviour with several judges of Agra district court earlier this year, the Allahabad High Court issued criminal contempt notices to 15 lawyers and asked them to appear by next month.
In the month of July and August, the group of lawyers had allegedly barged inside courtrooms and created ruckus during a protest, halting the ongoing courtroom proceeding.
Speaking to TOI, a senior advocate of Agra bar association said, “Lawyers were protesting against the water log in the court premises. Since hundreds of legal practitioners do not have proper chambers and work under the tin-shed, it becomes very inconvenient for them in monsoon. The anguished lawyers wanted to express their grief and hence disrupted the courtroom proceedings.”
According to New Agra police, the lawyers called strike on July 29 and 30 followed by August 1, 4 and 5, after which district session court judge Saroj Yadav, wrote letter to Allahabad High Court informing about the complaints received from other junior judges over the ill behaviour of lawyers in courtroom.
HC notice of whose copy is with TOI, the court has asked lawyer Arun Pachauri, Narendra Sharma, Birendra Faujdar, Mukesh Sharma, S P Bharadwaj, Sharad Kumar Lawaniya, Sanjay Sharma, Suresh Chand Sharma, Tejvir Singh, Amarnath Sharma, Hemant Bharadwaj, Ajay Singh Chahar, Suresh Sharma, Nasir Warsi and Ashok Kumar Kotia to appear on November 7 and explain as why not charges should be framed against them and tried for committing criminal contempt and punished.
“The HC court has served notice to even very senior lawyers, who had merely gone to courtrooms, urging judges to listen to their plea and help them. It’s really unfair. We will now brain storm on the matter and will respond appropriately about the court contempt notice,” said senior lawyer of Agra court.