The report of the Bar Council of India on the conduct of lawyers in Kathua and Jammu has shocked majority of the people concerned about a fair trial of the Kathua minor’s rape and murder case and punishment to the guilty. Shocking it is that the Bar Council India has gone out of its mandate given to its for investigating the conduct of the lawyers of Jammu and Kathua just to support the demand of the accused on transfer of the Kathua rape and murder case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). As even naïves in Jammu & Kashmir and rest of India know that Bar Council of India was assigned the job of investigating the conduct of lawyer in Kathua in Jammu challenged with critical evidence in the shape of videos and an affidavit of Jammu & Kashmir High confirming therein the allegations of blocking the charge sheet, the team Bar Council of India did not take the statements of the counsel of the victim’s family or the family including the father of the victim besides ignoring the contents of the affidavit of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court. In fact the report of team of Bar Council of India is by all standards of understandabilities the endorsement of the demand for CBI inquiry raised by the state unit of BJP and particularly the BJP’s two sacked ministers Chander Prakash Ganga and Chowdhry Lal Singh who attended the Hindu Ekta Manch rally called in support of the accused in Hiranagar area of Kathua district .
The member of the highest law making body trying to distort facts for the reasons of the convenience of a political party in power has brought into disrepute the professional ethics of the people who are believed to be the custodians of the legal rights of victims.
In fact the Bar Council of India was provided a golden opportunity to restore the faith of the people in the working of institutions connected with justice delivery system but the team of the Bar Council of India has lost this opportunity as the report submitted by it is full of contradictions. Despite knowing it well that the video showing lawyers in Kathua blocking the filing of charge sheet went viral on social networking sites and news portals across the country the Bar Council of India shamelessly has given its clean chit to the lawyers of Kathua who blocked the filing of charge sheet and threatened the counsel of the victim. The member of the highest law making body trying to distort facts for the reasons of the convenience of a political party in power has brought into disrepute the professional ethics of the people who are believed to be the custodians of the legal rights of victims.
