New Delhi: A division Bench of Calcutta High Court will on Friday deliver a verdict on a PIL filed on police firing and violence at Nandigram, even as lawyers on Thursday boycotted proceedings protesting the delay in giving the ruling.
News agency PTI quoted angry lawyers venting their anger. "We have boycotted the High Court because the hearing of the PIL filed by the High Court Bar Association on the March 14 Nandigram killing was over in July this year, but the Chief Justice has been delaying the verdict," Secretary of HCBA Uttam Majumdar was quoted as saying.
Such was the agitation that the lawyers even took out a procession and demanded immediate action on the matter.
High Court sources told the agencies that the verdict was, in fact, to be delivered on Thursday itself but the death of a judge forced the postponement.
Meanwhile, the state government is trying to rally support on its role in Nandigram, but with little success.
While the intellectuals took to the street against the Nandigram violence on Wednesday, a CPI-M rally backed by government justified the violent.
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