Agitating lawyers submitted a memorandum to the chief justice of Orissa High Court through the district collector.
''In the memorandum we have demanded immediate setting up of a high court bench at Balasore taking into consideration the fact that people in the district are suffering a lot, both physically and financially in the absence of it. They have to travel to Cuttack even for small cases,'' said Gopinath Mohanty, a senior advocate and a member of the association.
''The staff crunch is creating major backlog in the court and we demand immediate appointment of a judicial first class magistrate to dispose those cases, said Mohanty.
Lawyers have warned of intensifying their agitation in the coming days by staging ceasework every Monday and Saturday if the demands are not met with at the earliest.
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