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Madhya Pradesh High Court has initiated a contempt case against State Bar Council Chairman & its every elected member over continuing strike of lawyers in the state. State Bar Council, instead of resolving issue chose path of confrontation without justifiable cause, the HC said.

The Gwalior bench issued notice to them asking why it should not prosecute them for criminal contempt of court on account of them having compelled the lawyers to abstain from #judicial work "which is interfering and obstructing the administration of justice in the State."

Jabalpur bench of the high court had earlier initiated Suo Motu Public Interest Litigation in the matter and asked advocates to attend to their court work forthwith.

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In the order passed on Monday, the Gwalior bench said the Chairman and the elected members of the State Bar Council have, "by their intransigence", unnecessarily precipitated the matter by declaring strike.

The plight of the Bar, specially the Junior Bar is well known and they find themselves in a “between the devil and the deep sea” situation are helplessness to go against the illegal diktat of the State Bar Council: High Court

The action on the part of the Chairman of the Madhya Pradesh State Bar Council and its elected Members amounts to Criminal Contempt as defined under Section 2(c)(ii) or (iii): High Court