India, March 25 -- PRAYAGRAJ Members of the Allahabad High Court Bar Association began an indefinite strike on Tuesday to protest against the proposed transfer of Justice Yashwant Varma from the Delhi high court to the high court here.

A large number of lawyers gathered near Gate No. 3 of the high court and raised slogans in support of the strike. A team of lawyers, including Sumit Kumar Srivastava, joint secretary (admin); Abhijeet Pandey, joint secretary (library); Subhash Yadav, vice-president and Awadhesh Mishra, member of the governing council of the HCBA, went to courtrooms to request judges not to decide any matter as lawyers were abstaining from judicial work.

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