“Lawyers boycotted court and staged a protest in Motihari court premises, Also took out a protest march shouting slogans against government and proposed faulty advocate amendment bill” informed Rajeev Dwivedi aks Pappu Dubey, general secretary of district bar association.

Sagar Suraj

MOTIHARI: Lawyers protested the proposed Advocates (Amendment) Bill, which bans court boycotts, leading to strike sit-ins and procession. They boycotted court, disrupted court functioning abstaining court in East Champaran district on Tuesday. 

Advocates under the aegis of East Champaran district bar association staged a protest in Motihari court premises against a proposed draft of amendment to the Advocates Act, 1961, prohibiting them from boycotting and abstaining from court work.

The Bar Council of Bihar, has also given a call for statewide strike in all district courts and high court on February 25 against the recent draft of the Advocates (Amendment) Bill proposed by the Union law ministry that will prohibit advocates from going on strike.

“Lawyers boycotted court and staged a protest in Motihari court premises, Also took out a protest march shouting slogans against government and proposed faulty advocate amendment bill” informed Rajeev Dwivedi aks Pappu Dubey, general secretary of district bar association.

Dwivedi, who is also former co-chairman of state bar council, said that the bill proposes to take disciplinary action against any lawyer disrupting court functioning, even cancelling their license of practice, which is one of the most objectionable points in the bill among others. He said advocates across the nation will force the union law ministry to remove all points of the bill that attack our autonomy and professional freedom.   

President of district Bar association Sheshnarayan Kunwar hit hard at Center saying that “We are protesting present form of draft of advocate amendment bill. “We will protest this bill until our last breath. Who is the government to appoint its three members in the bar council? This is autonomous body of lawyers and government has nothing to do it’,

Notably,the Ministry, proposing to amend the Advocates Act by making sweeping changes in the definitions of what a legal practitioner and a law graduate mean, had put the draft The Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2025, on its website for public feedback and comments.

Senior advocate Rajeev Shankar Verma, said that draft Bill has already been withdrawn. The U-turn on the draft Bill came aftr the Bar Council of India (BCI) had written to Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, stating that the proposed Bill seeks to undermine the “autonomy and independence of the Bar”. Lawyer’s fraternity should wait until the final form of the draft comes. “Present draft Bills are not acceptable under any circumstances.

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