India, Jan. 10 -- Over 1,300 lawyers associated with the Gauhati High Court Bar Association (GHCBA) are protest against the Assam government's proposal to relocate the high court from its existing Uzanbazar campus to Rangmahal in north Guwahati across the Brahmaputra river.

The association said the plan would severely affect access to justice for thousands of litigants across the region. "The present campus is located in the heart of Guwahati with established transport links, chambers, photocopy facilities, clerical support and residential access, an ecosystem that has evolved over decades and cannot be recreated overnight at a new site," GHCBA president Kamal Nayan Choudhury said.

Choudhury also said the number of cases in the high cou...