India, May 25 -- Delhi high court judge Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav on Monday criticised the Delhi High Court Bar Association's (DHCBA) decision to abstain from work in protest against the court's cognisance of a proposal to increase the pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts from Rs.2 crore to Rs.20 crore.

He called the move improper, not an appropriate solution, and emphasised that concerns should be raised before the relevant authorities. "How can you abstain from court work? If lawyers do not appear, who will suffer? You have to work for the litigants. Abstaining from the court is not proper. If you have grievances, it has to be put forth at an appropriate forum by an appropriate mechanism," Justice Kaurav said after the lawyers app...