Mangalore, January 20: The members of Mangalore Bar Association on Friday staged a protest against the proposed Higher Education Bill, and alleged police atrocities against advocates.
Addressing the protesters on the District Court premises, here, SP Chengappa, president of Mangalore Bar Association (R) said that the Higher Education and Research Bill-2011, introduced in Rajya Sabha by the Central Government, indeed threatens to intrude in the autonomy and independence of legal profession.
The Bill proposes to take away the duties and functions entrusted with the BCI and State Bar Councils and it proposes to vest all these powers with a national commission comprising a few academicians, he said.
He said, Mangalore Bar Association strongly condemns the attempt of the Ministry of Human Resource Development by which it has tried to encroach upon the provision of the Advocates Act 1961 with a view to use the functions and duties of elected bodies compromising of more than 15 lakh advocates of the country.
“The power to take Disciplinary action against lawyers was attempted to be taken away and the proposal was to give this power to some bureaucrats or outsiders so that the government could be at liberty to misuse this power. It is under these backgrounds that the ministry of Human Resource Development has come out with this Bill.” he said.
“We oppose tooth and nail draconian and highly condemnable proposals contained in the Bill which directly affects the vital and basic structures of the Advocates Act 1961”, he added.
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