Bar seeks Delhi HC help in movement of lawyers across NCR

It said similar facilities have been given to Delhi Police personnel and sought direction to the Delhi Police to take up the matter with their counterparts in UP and Haryana.
Haryana Police personnel check identity cards at Delhi-Gurugram border | Shekhar Yadav
Haryana Police personnel check identity cards at Delhi-Gurugram border | Shekhar Yadav

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) has urged the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court to direct the police to allow advocates who reside in the NCR to cross Delhi border during the lockdown.

DHCBA, in a letter to Chief Justice D N Patel, said that a large number of advocates practicing in the high court and district courts here reside in Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad and are unable to travel to their offices situated in Delhi.

The letter, signed by DHCBA President and senior advocate Mohit Mathur, said those lawyers have no access to their files, records and books as they are lying in their offices in Delhi and many of them do not have the facility of video conferencing or books and commentaries at their residence to effectively participate in the hearings held by the courts.

It said similar facilities have been given to Delhi Police personnel and sought a direction to the Delhi Police to take up the matter with their counterparts in UP and Haryana.

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