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Hundreds of advocates took retired a procession successful protestation from Madurai District Court to the High Court connected Friday condemning the enactment initiated by Judicial Magistrate V, Madurai, D. Lakshmi Priya, against immoderate advocates for disrupting the tribunal proceedings.
The Joint Advocates Association Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and Madurai Bar Association members participated successful the protest. Advocates held placards and raised slogans. Traffic on the agelong was diverted.
Recently, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court had dismissed the petitions filed by a radical of advocates practising earlier the Madurai District Court who sought the quashing of the proceedings initiated against them by the Judicial Magistrate for disrupting the tribunal proceedings.
Justice L. Victoria Gowri had recorded heavy appreciation of the Judicial Magistrate for her fearlessness, integrity and unwavering committedness to judicial duty. What whitethorn beryllium perceived by immoderate arsenic stubbornness, the tribunal views arsenic principled firmness, an indispensable property successful the discharge of judicial duty, the tribunal had said.
The tribunal had said it recovered nary justification to quash the proceedings successful their inception and directed the Judicial Magistrate to proceed strictly successful accordance with the statutory model and the advocates should beryllium astatine liberty to spot their factual and ineligible objections earlier the Judicial Magistrate.
