Cubbon Park Vehicular Ban: Bengaluru Advocates Association Files Impleading Application at Karnataka HC, Says Lawyers Will Be Detrimentally Affected

The Advocates Association of Bengaluru has said that if vehicular movement is banned within and through Cubbon Park, it will cause great hardships to lawyers and will cause a delay in them attending various courts which are situated around Cubbon Park. The association has filed an impleading application, seeking them to be made a respondent and be heard before passing any orders, in a petition filed by a 5-month-old baby, represented by his father, seeking to ban traffic movement within and through Cubbon Park, in Bengaluru. The application filed by Advocate A N Gangadharaiah, who is the general secretary of the association, states "The petitioner while seeking relief such as ban of vehicular movement in the cubbon park area during the working hours ought to have made the representatives of the lawyers as parties for the reason that they are the most affected as the lawyers are making use of the roads more frequently than anyone else through the cubbon park area." It is also said in the plea that: "If there is a closure or ban of vehicle movement in the cubbon park area, it would affect the lawyers at large and would cause huge inconvenience to them.