Bar council polls in Aug

patna: special committee under the chairmanship of advocate-general shashi anugrah narain of the bihar state bar council has decided to hold its much-awaited election on august 5. the general body of the council was superseded on 20.08.2000 by the bar council of india (bci) after it could not hold the election within the stipulated period, despite a six-month extension.elections to the state bar council are held every five year. the yuva adhivakta kalyan samiti had filed a writ application demanding election to the bar council when the bar council of india had appointed a special committee under the chairmanship of the advocate-general narain and nominated the ex-chairman braj kishore prasad and bci member from bihar ramchandra jha to the three-member committee. the issue had generated a lot of controversy as the state bar council before its expiry had decided to hold elections in its on august 15, 2000. further delay in the elections was resented by the lawyers and the yuva adhivakta kalyan samiti had filed a writ petition, which was admitted by justice rs garg of the patna high court and notices were issued to to the bci and the special committee of the state bar council. prem chandra jha, an ex-president of the samiti says that it was only due to the pressure of the court that the declaration of the result happened. a member of the superseded bar council baleshwar sharma also blames the special committee for delaying the election as far as possible and charges it with a lot of irregularities in the preparation of the electoral rolls citing the example of deletion of 20,000 advocates from it. however, according to ramchandra jha, the delay was due to the preparation of election rolls on account of bifurcation of the state and the mandatory revision of election rolls, which was not done by any regular body for five-and-a-half years. he also states that the approximately 20,000 have not paid their dues and are defaulters at the moment. attack on lawyers condemned: the special committee of the bihar state bar council at its meeting on monday condemned the attack on laloo's lawyer chittranjan sinha. they also condemned the growing attack on lawyers in the state asking for enhanced security and protection. members of the advocates' association of the patna high court also wore badges to protest the attack and demanded a secure environment, so that the lawyers could function without any fear. the advocates' association is meeting chief minister rabri devi on tuesday at 4.30 pm to apprise her of the situation and hand her over a charter of demands for the security and welfare of the lawyers, according to their secretary general yogesh chandra verma.