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NEW DELHI AUG. 25. Lawyers at the Tis Hazari District courts today abstained from work in protest against the shifting of civil courts from Tis Hazari to the Kakardooma District courts.

The Delhi Bar Association (DBA) has given a call for abstaining from the courts for Monday and Tuesday.

In a joint statement, Rajiv Khosla and Sanjeev Nasiar, president and secretary respectively of the DBA, said the transfer of civil courts from the Tis Hazari courts to the Karkardooma courts would cause hardships to the litigants as they would need to travel there all the way from different far away places in the Capital.

The two said that the Delhi High Court had shifted the courts on the ground of paucity of space in the Tis Hazari courts but the fact was that there was enough vacant space available there.

They also criticised the the Delhi High Court decision to transfer only civil courts on the ground of delay in disposal of civil matters whereas pendency of cases in labour, magisterial and other courts were much more than in civil courts. They accused the High Court of trying to weaken a writ petition filed by the DBA in the Supreme Court in the matter by transferring the civil courts.

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