Lawyers boycott Orissa local courts

Functioning in local courts of western Orissa were hit for the second consecutive day today due to agitation by the lawyers to demand for setting up of a bench of Orissa high court.   As per the schedule, the lawyers had been boycotting courts for the last three days of each month to demand a bench of Orissa high court in western Orissa.  The lawyers under the banner of Western Orissa Bar Association had been agitating for the last several years to press for their demand.The lawyers today obstructed the judges, revenue and other officials following which work in the offices had been affected at Sambalpur, the nerve centre of western Orissa.