Bar cheif shifted to hospital

LAWYERS LED by a senior counsel N S Kale on Thursday shifted MP High Court Bar Association president Adarsh Muni Trivedi, sitting on an indefinite fast since Monday demanding the removal of Advocate General R N Singh, to hospital after his condition deteriorated.

LAWYERS LED by a senior counsel N S Kale on Thursday shifted MP High Court Bar Association president Adarsh Muni Trivedi, sitting on an indefinite fast since Monday demanding the removal of Advocate General R N Singh, to hospital after his condition deteriorated.

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Trivedi was rushed to a government hospital where his condition was stated to be critical. Trivedi has alleged that Singh was misusing official machinery to browbeat the lawyers.

The former MPHCBA president Kale announced the lifting of the protest dharna outside the HC premises saying that Trivedi would continued as the Bar president till the election was held.

Kale said that though the tenure of Trivedi has ended in August, he has initiated the process for the next election—a practice going on for quite sometime. He said that the interest of the Bar was paramount and no one should be allowed to prevail over it.

In the evening, there was a minor scuffle between supporters of the AG and Trivedi. But senior lawyers intervened to diffuse the tension.

Some lawyers allegedly supported by the AG had declared senior advocate J P Sanghi as the Working President of the Bar. The row between Trivedi and Singh surfaced over the issue of invitation to the HC golden jubilee function addressed by the President APJ Abdul Kalam on October 12.

Additional Advocate General T S Ruprah said that the decision to allow Trivedi to continue was taken unanimously.