Several senior lawyers who held positions in the erstwhile Bar association JKHCBA were arrested over the past month Hurriyat chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on July 19 sought the intervention of judges of the J&K and Ladakh High Court into a series of arrests of lawyers in the past month, in the wake of erstwhile J&K High Court Bar Association’s () plans to hold internal elections. “If lawyers are put behind bars, who will fight people’s cases in courts? Who will defend their judicial rights? In this…
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