Lawyers across Delhi district courts on Thursday said they successfully observed a one-day strike against “the alleged false implication” of an advocate in a murder case. Tarun Rana, secretary of the New Delhi Bar Association, of the Patiala House court, said, “The coordination committee’s call to abstain from work today was successful. Today’s agitation was to warn the prosecuting agency not to attack lawyers’ fundamental right to maintain secrecy about their privileged communication with clients.” On Tuesday, the coordination committee of district courts’ bar associations in Delhi called for a complete strike on November 6, citing that the Special Task Force of Gurugram Police had “illegally implicated advocate Vikram Singh merely because he was representing a co-accused in a murder case.” The committee demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of “the false implication and all consequential proceedings” against the advocate.
