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The Tripura Bar Association, the apex assemblage of lawyers successful the State, connected Monday (January 19, 2026) acceptable a deadline for the removal of the president of the West Tripura District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Gautam Sarkar, who has been accused of misbehaving with lawyers successful an inebriated condition.
Mr. Sarkar is simply a retired territory and sessions judge.
Demanding that Mr. Sarkar beryllium sacked successful 3 days, the lawyers said they would boycott the user tribunal till enactment is taken. The leaders of the barroom said they volition instrumentality up the demands with the Minister of Food and Consumer Affairs.
“The barroom is unanimous successful adopting a solution for the removal of Gautam Sarkar wrong 3 days. We person besides decided to boycott the user tribunal till the authorities appoints a caller president,” elder advocator Pijush Biswas announced aft the meeting.
He said they volition effort to conscionable the acrophobic Minister this evening to question his intervention.
Mr. Biswas and different lawyers alleged that Mr. Sarkar had been embroiled successful superior controversies during his tenure successful the judiciary. He was often recovered to beryllium successful an intoxicated information and committed acts contrary to his stature, they alleged.
