Allahabad High Court lawyers today abstained from judicial work and formed a human chain to protest against the demand by a section of their colleagues to constitute a bench of the court in western Uttar Pradesh.
Their protest was also aimed at the proposed expansion of the Lucknow bench of the high court.
The Allahabad High Court Bar Association (HCBA) previously adopted a resolution against the demand by a group of lawyers for a separate bench of the high court in western Uttar Pradesh.
After abstaining from judicial work, the lawyers under HCBA banner took out a march from Bhimrao Ambedkar's statue near the high court to Subhash Chowk in Civil Lines area.
They raised slogan such as "one state, one high court".
On reaching the Civil Lines crossing, the lawyers formed a human chain to protest any move to divide the Allahabad High Court.
According to HCBA joint secretaries - Prashant Singh and Santosh Singh, a five-member committee headed by its president I K Chaturvedi would meet the prime minister and the Union law minister to apprise them about the HCBA's stand.
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