Members of the Bar Association in Walajah near Ranipet have been boycotting the proceedings of the District Munsif cum Magistrate Court against the Public Works Department for not whitewashing their chambers.
K. Elangovan, president, Bar Association (Walajah), said they resorted to the boycott for two reasons - one, for ignoring common advocates’ chamber while doing the painting work and the other was due to the proposal to set up taluk-level courts by bifurcating existing Walajah court.
PWD officials said the whitewash work of the court building was done during every summer based on the request by the court. The main court building has at least 15 rooms including court halls and judges chambers. The advocates chamber is frequented by lawyers for their routine work. As a result, painting work of the chamber was kept as the last task. However, the work got delayed, PWD officials said.
