Kashmir

NIA summons bar chief Mian Qayoom again, lawyers to go on strike after Sep 14

Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has again summoned president Kashmir High Court Bar Association Mian Qayoom to its headquarters in New Delhi on September 14, reported Kashmir Life, a weekly magazine based in Srinagar.

The lawyers claimed that they will stay away from court work starting Sep 14, unless their bar chief is released and returned.

“All the members unanimously decided that since the NIA investigation and calling of Bar President to New Delhi, again, is aimed at to harass and humiliate the Bar Leadership and the purpose behind registration of the criminal case and raiding of houses of Pro-freedom leadership and their activists and dragging them to New Delhi, is to intimidate and threaten them so that they give up their support to the principled cause of people of Kashmir and their inalienable right of self-determination, therefore as a mark of protest, the Bar members shall observe strike on 14th of September 2017 and continue the same till the President would return back from Delhi,” a spokesman of the association said.

The lawyers are to meet again on the morning of Sept 15 to further discuss the issue, a spokesman said.

“Accordingly, all the members of the Bar Association Srinagar and other District and Mufassil Bar Associations are requested to observe complete strike on September14 when the President would be in New Delhi and continue the same till he returns back, from Delhi.”

In order to show their solidarity with the Bar President, it was also decided that the team of lawyers, which had accompanied him New Delhi on September 7 shall again accompany him and will remain with him till he returns home.

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