Vishakhapatnam Bar Association undertakes before Supreme Court not to abstain from court work in future, after contempt notice

The Supreme Court in the case Superwhizz Professionals Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of  India & Ors observed wherein the Vishakhapatnam Bar Association has filed an affidavit undertaking that it would not boycott and/or encourage lawyers to abstain from court work in future.

The bench comprising of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice AG Masih in the case observed and has issued a contempt notice to the Association in July for abstaining from court work and thus preventing the Debts Recovery Tribunal, DRT in Vishakhapatnam from functioning.

The order was passed in an SLP challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s order wherein the court disposed of the petitioner’s writ petition, which claimed that the DRT did not consider its Securitization Application of 2022 despite urgency.