India, Jan. 9 -- Members of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association (GHCBA) commenced a three-day, six-hour hunger strike on Thursday against the Government's move to shift the court complex to North Guwahati.

A new complex of the Gauhati High Court has been proposed as part of a judicial township at Rangmahal in North Guwahati, and Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of it on January 11.

The hunger strike, led by the GHCBA president, KN Choudhury, began at 10 am in front of the old building of the Gauhati High Court, as part of a decision in an emergent Extra-Ordinary General meeting held on Tuesday. ".as a peaceful and democratic expression of its considered stand, the Gauhati High Court...