Arappor Iyakkam urges Bar Association to remove advocates who disrupted public hearing on illegal stone quarrying and attacked PUCL member

The Arappor Iyakkam and advocator Suresh person urged the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to initiate enactment against 10 advocates who allegedly attacked advocator and PUCL subordinate Suresh and disrupted the nationalist proceeding held present successful November past to papers the problems being caused by rampant illicit chromatic quarrying successful Tirunelveli district.

The abstracted petitions submitted by Advocate Suresh and Arappor Iyakkam convener Jayaram Venkatesan with grounds to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry connected December 4 question disciplinary enactment nether the Advocates Act, 1961 against 10 named advocates of Tirunelveli “who successful afloat nationalist view, attacked Advocate Suresh and others, and forcibly disrupted a nationalist hearing” organised by Arappor Iyakkam successful Tirunelveli connected November 2 last.

The nationalist proceeding was organised by Arappor Iyakkam to supply a level for farmers and the villagers of assorted places successful Tirunelveli territory affected by amerciable chromatic quarrying to speech astir and papers however the rampant amerciable chromatic quarrying was causing social, biology and livelihood problems to locals, particularly the farmers.

The planned onslaught by the assailants, who openly identified themselves arsenic “lawyers” representing the chromatic quarry owners and Stone Quarry Owners’ Association, occurred successful the beingness of the Palayamkottai police. Despite the First Information Report naming 5 advocates, the ailment was deliberately bereft of details astir the attack, including not naming Suresh, an advocate, who suffered hard stroke and wounded connected his caput owed to a seat being thrown astatine him from down by a lawyer, the petitions said.

“Through these complaints, it has been sought to instrumentality contiguous disciplinary enactment against the advocates progressive successful the onslaught against Advocate Suresh and others and region them from the Bar,” the petitioners sought.