SCBA had final week urged the bar bodies to reconsider and withdraw their joint decision looking for motion in opposition to Meghalaya Advocate Basic (AG) Amit Kumar.
The bar associations had handed the decision after the AG criticised them for allegedly failing to offer protected atmosphere to girls legal professionals and feminine interns in Shillong.
In a response despatched to the SCBA, the 2 Shillong-based bar our bodies have now accused Kumar of utilizing his clout to promote a false narrative.
In addition they accused him of misguiding the SCBA concerning the info resulting in the stripping of his bar affiliation membership.
“We’ve got no want to interact in a confrontation with the SCBA. On the identical time, we want to make it unequivocally clear that the members of our bar associations is not going to be intimidated, pressured, bullied or compelled to desert a call democratically taken by our members merely as a result of the individual affected by that call is lobbying in your corridors,” the bar our bodies mentioned.
They additional said that SCBA’s intervention of their inner affairs “by way of some perceived sense of supremacy or favouritism” units a harmful precedent which must concern each bar affiliation within the nation.
“On this regard, does the SCBA declare to have a greater understanding of the native circumstances in our Bar Associations? Does the SCBA declare to have a greater understanding, than the legal professionals/members who witnessed the court docket proceedings the place the mentioned vilifying assertion was made by Mr. Amit Kumar in opposition to our Bar Associations and its members? Can SCBA intervene with the democratic choice made collectively and unanimously by members of our Bar Affiliation? Is the SCBA an Apex Physique that may substitute its judgment for that of ours who’re nicely conversant of what’s taking place in our respective Bar Affiliation?,” the letter provides.
The response was despatched to the SCBA Secretary Pragya Baghel by Meghalaya Excessive Courtroom Bar Affiliation Secretary Basic Kishore Ch Gautam and Shillong Bar Affiliation Secretary TL Jyrwa.
