India, April 1 -- As the union government notified the transfer of Delhi high court's justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma on Tuesday, the three lawyers associations at the Calcutta high court have asked the high court not to allocate any judicial work to the judge, saying that it was possible that lawyers may not appear before him.

"The Calcutta High Court Bar Association, the Incorporated Law Society of Calcutta and the Bar Library Club held a meeting after the transfer notice was published in the Gazette of India on Tuesday afternoon. We adopted a resolution and wrote to the chief justice of the high court that we will not attend any hearing at justice Sharma's court and skip his swearing-in-ceremony as well," a senior member of the Bar Associ...