Supreme Court Bar Association resolves to condemn JNU attack

The Executive Committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association has resolved to condemn the violent attack carried out on the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on January 5..In a resolution passed today, the SCBA has also condemned the Delhi Police's inaction against the "anti-social elements" and has alo called upon the authorities to take necessary steps to ensure maintenance of law and order..The Executive Committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association today resolved to strongly condemn the violence against the JNU students by anti-social elements. It further resolved to condemn the inaction on the part of Delhi Police, and called upon the authorities to act and ensure that the Rule of Law prevailed.SCBA Resolution.In another development today, a group of about forty lawyers gathered in the Supreme Court Lawns today to recite the Preamble of the Constitution of India. A lawyer part of the gathering told Bar & Bench that the reading was prompted for upholding the constitutional values and reminding the judiciary that this is our Constitution.This gathering also saw participation by lawyers such as Prashant Bhushant, Kamini Jaiswal, and Sanjay Parekh and came at a time when the several quarters of the civil society are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the proposed nationwide NRC, and the NPR as well as protesting in solidarity with the students of various Universities including Jamia Milia Islamia and the JNU.Recently, a gathering of Madras High Court lawyers also read out the Preamble of the Constitution as part of a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.A recent controversy that has also prompted national debate concerns violence in Universities. Petitions alleging brutality by the police on students of the Jamia Milia Islamia University and the Aligarh Muslim University were initially filed before the Supreme Court.However, after the Supreme Court declined to take up the matter on an urgent basis, the petitions were redirected to be taken up be the respective jurisdictional courts.On January 5, masked and armed persons entered the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus to attack the university students which has led to large outpour of support and solidarity from various arms of the civil society, particularly from the students across the country.