Uttar Pradesh Lawyers Strike

Lawyers across Uttar Pradesh are on a three-day strike beginning Monday to protest the alleged police lathi-charge on advocates in Hapur district last week.

Lawyers in Uttar Pradesh are on strike today, a day after a policeman fired his gun at a court in Allahabad and shot dead a lawyer.

Despite being assigned to a fast track court, the hearing into the decade-old Ashiana gang rape case could not progress for the second week in a row, thanks to an ongoing lawyers' strike in Lucknow. The case pertains to the alleged brutal gang rape of a minor girl by a group of six boys in 2005.

An agitation by lawyers in Meerut demanding the setting up of a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Wednesday when civil administration employees confronted them.

Judicial work across Uttar Pradesh was crippled on Tuesday as lawyers struck work for a day on a call by the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council to protest a series of attacks on lawyers. The strike was provoked, particularly, by recent attack on senior Allahabad High Court lawyer Krishna Raj Sirohi, the assault on lawyers in Tiloi and police highhandedness ...

Lawyers across Uttar Pradesh are on a three-day strike beginning Monday to protest the alleged police lathi-charge on advocates in Hapur district last week.

Lawyers in Uttar Pradesh are on strike today, a day after a policeman fired his gun at a court in Allahabad and shot dead a lawyer.

Despite being assigned to a fast track court, the hearing into the decade-old Ashiana gang rape case could not progress for the second week in a row, thanks to an ongoing lawyers' strike in Lucknow. The case pertains to the alleged brutal gang rape of a minor girl by a group of six boys in 2005.

An agitation by lawyers in Meerut demanding the setting up of a high court bench in western Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Wednesday when civil administration employees confronted them.

Judicial work across Uttar Pradesh was crippled on Tuesday as lawyers struck work for a day on a call by the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council to protest a series of attacks on lawyers. The strike was provoked, particularly, by recent attack on senior Allahabad High Court lawyer Krishna Raj Sirohi, the assault on lawyers in Tiloi and police highhandedness ...