Honoured ancestors, destitute descendants

Destitute descendents and street children of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar living in abject poverty in Kolkata.
Honoured ancestors, destitute descendants

Curfew in Kishtwar as riot toll rises to two

Curfew in Kishtwar as riot toll rises to two

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Testing whether works.

Ants have come out

Last date for clearing dues is 22.02.2012. The candidates are now have been over taken by gestures of over humility and sociability. As soon as the election is over they would disappear, whether they lose or win into thin air. One Sanjiv sharma advocate has been maimed by goons despatched by builder mafias. Mr Sanjiv had filed a suit against illegal constructions and encroachment at Chiragh Delhi that is on way to our court in Saket Date. He was attacked near Bhagat Singh college.

N.D.B.A pictures

Locker room in New Chamber Complex where poor lawyers can keep their stationeries and files

Our Library has a collection of 12000 books substantially on Criminal Law.

This is our Central Hall which is also called Thakur Onkar Hall with attached pantry, renovated on the orders of former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.

Library

Common Computer Room has 4 computers with internet connection.

Locker Room In new Chamber Complex where poor lawyers can keep their files and stationeries

Typist Verandah alongside Central Hall also known as Thakur Onkar Hall.

New Delhi Bar Association :Election for 2008

They have put up a list of eligible voters in prominent places in our court compound. They are 2806- lawyers.
New Delhi Bar Association election is slated to be held on 11th of April 2008.
Canvassing is getting hectic day by day. Candidates are roaming chamber to chamber, seat to seat and scouring the lanes and bi-lanes of the compound like speciously lost ants, untiringly, wishing, saluting who ever they think is a lawyer with the refrains: “Bhupender Sharma for Secretary”, “Pradeep for member Executive sir”and as such. To show their support and strength the resourceful one are campaigning in large groups occasionally. The lesser underdogs are campaigning either alone or in groups of two or three. In some cases their colleagues are not lawyers. They are either their relatives or friends impersonating as lawyers.

Yesterday on the 2nd of April I accompanied Mr Bhupender Sharma to Bar Office where he filed his nomination for the post of Hony Secretary. He paid the fee of Rs. 450/-. We were 100 in number, the narrow lanes forcing us into an elongated crowd of chance procession.


The Bar Office, the library, the Internet cafe, the dispensary and the conference room is situated on the first floor above court No 7& 8 and the lock-up.

Every day around 6-7 bus loads of noisy prisoners are deposited in the court lock up from where each of them is escorted by special police constables in khakis with black badges on their shoulder, to courts where their cases are slated to be heard.
Mr. K.K. Manan and Mr. Ramesh Gupta are the most popular lawyer in our court. Both professionly and socio-politically active. While the former has a sort of don image and has a tendency to awe others the later has the general image of gentle man and intellectual.

There are many lawyers in our court who are not in a position to pay their yearly subscription of Rs.300/- The affluent lawyers are paying subscriptions on their behalf .This is a tradition in our Bar.

The flip side is that the some of the candidates contesting for the President and Secretary posts make un-regulated supply of liquor , eatables and in some cases a few of them go as far as making available prostitutes to those who they thing might garner votes for them.

History: Establishment and shifting

New Delhi Bar Association was established in the year! 1955 at Parliament Street Govt. Offices Complex where the New Delhi Courts used to function now where you have the Commissioner of Cooperative offices। To call it a complex is a misnomer। It is a square dotted with one storey small houses in yellow. Mr Suraj Bhan was it’s first President..

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New Delhi Courts and for that matter the New Delhi Bar Association was shifted to it’s present location at Tilak Marg in the Year 1978। The credit for shifting the courts to its unique location and in the impressive building that once used to be the palace of Maharaja of Patiala singularly goes to Mr.Justice Parkash Narain, the then Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. New Delhi Courts were shifted after the High Court was shifted to the present complex.

Now the New Delhi Bar Association boasts of five thousand members with stinking and creeking and crumbling infrastructure with all-round degradation including moral and professional values
Many say this is no longer a place for gentlemen but musclemen and goons.