To The Hon’ble Members of the Bar Association of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
I want to express my gratitude once again to the hon’ble members of this House and to the legal fraternity I am grateful to the Bar Council for expressing their concern for me.
Members of the legal profession are in a unique position to resist the decline of law. But they can do so effectively if they remain united.
I am doing what I feel I have to do. And I will carry on with my little battle but I feel it is very necessary that courts which are the constitutional check on the executive and perhaps may still be in a position to protect civil liberties must not be choked.
I am one with the bar that some-times the act is so outrageous that a strike becomes inevitable but still a stage comes when alternative methods of protest ought to be explored. How can we forget the ordinary man fighting his heroic battle through the courts? My cause should not extinguish his cause.
Please resume work. You are up against insensitive men and this way of protest can-not go forever. You have made a point with this public protest. Let us now make our point in courts of law. The vision which inspired our freedom struggle is yet to be realized and Tagore’s India “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; into that heaven of freedom O father let my county awake” is a distant dream.
Ajit Singh Bains Dated 5/1/92 Note: Justice Ajit Singh Bains requested that the members of the Bar Association of the Punjab and Haryana High Court call off their indefinite strike to demand his release. We are reprinting two letters sent by Justice Bains in prison to the Bar Association the first thanking them for their support and the second asking them to call off the strike. Editor
Article extracted from this publication >> May 29, 1992
