[COVID-19] Grant Rs 30 lakh compensation to families of deceased lawyers, treat lawyers as frontline workers: Bar body to CM BS Yediyurappa

"Advocates are at a much higher risk and must be treated as frontline workers for the purposes of vaccination also", the AAB has further requested.

Lawyers

Rintu Mariam Biju

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The Advocates Association, Bangalore (AAB) recently wrote to the Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa to consider treating advocates as front-line workers and to grant an ex-gratia compensation of Rs 30 lakh to the families of those advocates who have succumbed to the virus.

Karnataka