Mumbai Local: Lawyers, clerks can soon travel during peak hours
4 years, 1 month ago

Mumbai Local: Lawyers, clerks can soon travel during peak hours

India Today  

Lawyers practising in different courts and clerks associated with legal departments can now travel in Mumbai Local any time during the day. Maharashtra Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni today informed the division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S Kulkarni of the Bombay High Court that the state government was thinking of allowing lawyers to travel by suburban local trains during peak hours. The court has been hearing public interest litigations filed by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa and other lawyers seeking directions to the state to consider practising advocates as essential service providers and permit them to travel by local trains to attend hearings in trial courts. Senior counsel Milind Sathe and lawyer Shyam Dewani, appearing for the petitioners, told the court that since even the Bombay High Court had resumed physical hearings in a limited manner, it was necessary that lawyers be permitted to commute by local trains during peak hours to reach the court that starts functioning at 11 am every day. The letter issued by the Maharashtra government to the Central and Western Railway states that lawyers and clerks from the Bombay Bar Association, the Advocates' Association of Western India, the Bombay Incorporated Law Society, the Bombay High Court Law Library and the Kirtikar Law Library are permitted to travel on the Mumbai local train "during the course of the entire day, every day, save and except the evening peak hours i.e., 04.00 p.m. to 07.00 p.m." The railway has forwarded it to the railway board.

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India TV News  

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The Hindu  

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Firstpost  

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