By IANS
New Delhi : A city court Monday stayed the six months’ rigorous imprisonment handed out to each of the 19 lawyers in Delhi who did not abide by the Delhi High Court’s directive not to go on strike.
Additional Sessions Judge K.S. Mohi while admitting the appeal of the lawyers stayed the sentence and fixed Dec 17 as next date for hearing the case.
On Feb 11, 2005 the lawyers walked down from Tis Hazari courts complex to the Civil Lines to protest the shifting of some lawyers’ chambers and courts from Tis Hazari complex to the newly-built Rohini courts Complex in north-west Delhi.
The Delhi High Court had booked the lawyers under section 144 of the Indian Penal Code (joining unlawful assembly) for holding the strike.
All the 19 lawyers remained in police custody for six days and were later released on bail.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Yadav Nov 30 held the lawyers guilty and sentenced them to maximum punishment of six months.