Young lawyers seek voting rights in Bar elections
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Young lawyers on Saturday staged protest against the J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu for depriving them voting rights in the forthcoming Bar elections.
Lawyers assembled in the High Court premises and raised slogans in support of their demands.
Young lawyers said that in the recently held General House Meeting of J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu it was decided that the lawyers inducted after 1st January 2016 shall be debarred from using their voting rights in the ensuing Bar elections. They criticized the decision of Bar Association as it was not the part of the agenda. They urged upon the authorities to allow the young lawyers to exercise franchise in the upcoming bar elections.