High Court Bar to strike work over judge's transfer

The Delhi High Court Bar Association has expressed serious concern at a recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium to transfer Justice Gaurang Kanth to Calcutta High Court, and said this would adversely affect the dispensation of justice because it would lead to a reduction in strength of the court.

It has asked its members to abstain from work on Monday, 17 July, to express “token protest” at the move.

The Bar Association expressed regret at the fact that the transfer had been recommended “while no attention” was being paid to filling up vacancies in the High Court. It requested the collegium to revisit the recommendation and said it was also writing to the Union government to ask it not to act on it.

Besides Justice Kanth, the Collegium had earlier this month recommended the transfers of two other judges ~ of Justice Manoj Bajaj from the Punjab & Haryana High Court to Allahabad High Court and of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court to Kerala High Court.