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2. Broad spectrum of this public interest litigation and the connected writ petitions as well as other criminal original petitions concerns the State police, lawyers and the Court.
3. The facts which led to the initiation of the suo motu public interest litigation by this Court are that the members of the Bar went on an indefinite boycott of Courts on and from 29.01.2009, alleging that the Government was not taking any action to stop the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. As part of their agitation, some lawyers entered the First Court presided over by the Honble Acting Chief Justice where some of the lawyers who were attending to their cases were asked to join the boycott. One learned senior counsel by name Mr.A.E.Chellaiah and his wife advocate Mrs.Vasanthi, were stated to have been abused by the agitating lawyers. The boycott, which commenced on 29.01.2009, continued and was gaining momentum. Several other incidents as part of agitation of the lawyers was also reported on various dates.