After the Saket Court firing case in the Capital. The Bar Council of India requested the Central government to frame an effective law for “the protection of lives, interests, and privilege of advocates and their families”.
A bench of Justices Ravindra Bhat and Dipankar Datta was hearing a batch of petitions seeking directions with respect to special measures to enhance the security of court premises in all Indian courts, as well as the people involved in various capacities with the justice delivery system.
The Supreme Court revealed that this resolution was taken at a joint meeting of all the state bar councils with the Bar Council of India, under the chairpersonship of senior advocate and BCI chief Manan Kumar Mishra. Besides urging the centre to frame a law for the protection of lawyers, the bar councils have also demanded the payment of appropriate compensation in the event of any attack on an advocate or their family members, or any bodily harm caused to them or their family, and the framing of an effective law to that end.
Further, the resolution has also claimed that “every responsible and prudent citizen of the country is worried about the future of his-her children” now that the Indian Supreme Court is seized of the question of marriage equality, and that allegedly “99.9 per cent of the people” are opposed to the idea of same-sex marriage.
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