Advocate Protection Act should be implemented in UP as soon as possible - Advocate Saroj Yadav

Agra. During the CM's visit to Agra, the advocates of Session Court Agra demonstrated under the leadership of Advocate Saroj Yadav and submitted a memorandum addressed to the CM demanding the implementation of Advocate Protection Act. It was said through the memorandum that today lakhs of advocates of Uttar Pradesh are feeling insecure. For the last few years, there have been continuous deadly attacks on advocates in different parts of the state.

Many advocates have lost their lives in targeted attacks and murders and deadly attacks on lawyers are not stopping. Which is a serious challenge to the rule of law. The legal battle fought by an advocate to get justice for a party is an integral part of the judicial process. Justice cannot be imagined without an advocate. The advocate is called an officer of the court. An advocate advocates for his side in a case, in such a situation it is natural to have animosity and resentment with the other side, therefore it is the essential responsibility of the state government to protect the life and property of the advocate and his family and the state government cannot back out from its responsibility.

During this, advocate Saroj Yadav said that today such circumstances have arisen in the state that it is extremely necessary to provide security to the advocate. He said that after the brutal lathicharge on the lawyers by the police in Hapur, the lawyers held a nationwide agitation, then the government ended the agitation by giving assurance of making a Protection Act soon, but put the Protection Act in cold storage. If the government had been serious and sensitive towards the lawyers, then today the Protection Act would have been implemented in the state. But the intention of the government is not at all in the interest of the lawyers and we do not accept the anti-advocate rule at all. Advocate Saroj Yadav made a strong demand and said that if the Advocate Protection Act is not implemented in the state very soon, then the advocates of the state will be forced to take the path of fierce agitation, the complete responsibility of which will be of the state government. Among the advocates who demonstrated and submitted the memorandum, Surendra Lakhan, Narendra Singh, Rajkumar, Praveen Sharma, Rajiv Kumar Singh, Vijendra Singh, Ramhet, Arjun Singh, Sumit Kumar, Yashpal Singh, Mohammad Sattar, Nandkishore, etc. were prominently present.