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Patna, (Bihar Times): Protesting agains the whopping
increase in the court fees about 8,000 registered
lawyers of the Patna high court on Thursday abstained
from the court duty. They will continue their
agitation on Friday and will march to the state
assembly at 11:00 am. The lawyers are upset because
they were not at all taken into confidence.
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Earlier on February 25, while presenting the budget
the deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi,
announced huge increase in the court fees. For example
now a person will have to pay four times more for
filing a Public Interest Litigation––from Rs 250 to
1,000. Similarly, the fee for wakalatnama, affidavit
etc were also hiked.
The hike will not only hit the poor litigants much it
will also discourage many social activists from filing
PIL, which of late, is proving to be a big
embarrassment for the government.
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