Allahabad HC Directs UP Advocates' Welfare Fund Trustees Committee To Take Loan If It Doesn't Have Enough Funds To Support Lawyers [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Trustees Committee, constituted under the Uttar Pradesh Advocates Welfare Fund Act, 1974, to take a loan in case it does not have sufficient funds to assist financially weak lawyers, during the lockdown period. "Under Section 5 the Trustees Committee may use its powers in the present times to borrow funds and, therefore, under...