Families of 17 deceased advocates to get Rs 5L financial assistance each

Kanpur: The

families

of 17 deceased advocates will soon get a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each in compliance of the order passed by the Allahabad high court recently.

Ravindra Sharma, advocate and convener of Adhivakta Kalyan Sangharsh Samiti, said that the high court had suo moto heard the PIL on April 20 last and passed the order to this effect. In compliance of the said order, Rajya Vidhik Parishad and Advocates Welfare Trust disposed of around 279 death claims and sanctioned Rs 5 lakh to each family.

Sharma said the deceased advocates whose family would get the financial assistance are Anil Kumar Gautam, Neeraj Kumar Mishra, Sanjeev Kumar Shukla, Surendra Kumar Taneja, Awadhesh Kumar Gupta, Arvind Kumar Agrahari, Ajay Kumar Singh, Nitesh Tiwari, Pankaj Kumar Pal, Pravin Kumar Gautam, Santosh Kumar Verma, Manoj Kumar, Yashpal Singh, Ajay Kumar Sonkar, Sunil Sharma, Jaswant Singh and Raj Kumar.

Meanwhile, UP law minister Brijesh Pathak on Friday assured advocates that the government would take measures to provide financial assistance to them in the lockdown period.

A delegation of advocates, led by Pawan Kumar Tiwari advocate, had recently met the law minister at his residence and requested him to provide financial assistance to advocates during lockdown. The law minister assured the delegation that the government was taking steps to remove legal hurdles in the matter. He asked the Advocates Welfare Trust to dispose of death claims of advocates as soon as possible.

Advocates’ dress code: The Supreme Court, through a circular issued on May 13, has fixed a dress code for advocates during hearing in courts. On the medical advice, the Supreme Court has said that, male advocates may wear only plain white shirt and women advocates white shalwar- qameez/ white saree with plain white neckband during hearing in the courts. Advocates have been exempted from wearing coat, gown or robe till further orders in this regard.