Lawyers attached to the courts functioning at Kancheepuram have formed a steering committee to take forward their ongoing agitations in support of their demands.
The legal practitioners at Kancheepuram have organised a series of agitations during the last eight months demanding that the Family Court, announced by the State government, be set up at the district headquarters – Kancheepuram.
However, the High Court administrators seem to have made up their mind to set it up at Chengalpattu.
Addressing a meeting held at the Kancheepuram Bar Association premises here on Wednesday, senior advocate Abdul Hakeem, who spearheaded the advocates’ agitations few years ago to get the Principal District Sessions Court shifted from Chengalpattu to Kancheepuram, said they were once again forced to organise agitations as the High Court administrators have failed to honour their words.
“We decided to withdraw our agitations last time and agreed for Sessions Court-II with limited jurisdiction, as they assured that district-level courts, if any to be announced in future, will be set up at the district headquarters only. But, now they had announced that Family Court will be set up at Chengalpattu. Further, they are yet to honour another assurance given at that time, over the setting up of Labour Court at Kancheepuram,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, the Lawyers Association president, Parthasarathy, pointed out that the High Court administration was yet to make any move for setting up of a special court at Kancheepuram to try land grabbing cases, though these special courts have been set up and have started functioning in other districts.
Mr. Hakeem, has, therefore, been assigned to spearhead the agitation once again as the president of the Steering Committee, with another senior advocate, A. Shanmugam, and the secretary of Kancheepuram Bar Association, Jayachandran, assisting him as the vice-president and secretary, respectively.
The Steering Committee has obtained the consent of traders associations and non-governmental organisations in the town to make the lawyers agitation into a mass movement by organising a one-day bandh on December 20, Mr. Jayanchandran said.
