Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has said that only the resolutions passed by the executive body of the High Court Bar Association will be acknowledged by the court and any request raised by a single office-bearer will not be accepted. A single bench of Justice Ajit Kumar gave this observation while expressing its displeasure over a letter circulated by the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) requesting the court to not pass any ‘adverse orders' in the absence of lawyers who were abstaining from work. The bench said a letter written by any Bar Association official, at the instance of a few lawyers, cannot be considered as the ‘general view' of the Bar.
It further said that such acts put the court's functioning on hold without considering the importance of public time and public money. The bench gave this observation while hearing a revision filed by one Hazi Tahseen Khan on Nov 7. "It is expected that in future whenever the Bar Association wants such letters to be circulated to the high court seeking no adverse orders, it is always supported by resolution to be adopted by the Bar Association in general and in exceptional circumstances by its executive body," the bench said.
In the present case, on Nov 7, the petitioner insisted for hearing in this case as the respondent was repeatedly absent. However, the bench secretary placed a letter head of office-bearers of HCBA bearing a signature of the honorary secretary of Bar Association, Vikrant Pandey, requesting for "no adve.
