‘Lawyers can be exempted in next odd-even session’

Lawyers in the Capital will not be exempted from the ongoing phase of the odd-even scheme with the AAP government on Tuesday informing Delhi High Court that it will consider the issue if the scheme comes into force again. The government assured a Bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath that if the odd-even scheme will come again after the ongoing phase would be over on April 30, it would consider the issue of whether to exempt lawyers from it.

“Next time if it (odd-even scheme) happens, we will give an appropriate consideration. If the petitioner will take up the issue again, we will consider it positively,” Delhi government senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra told the Bench. The Bench, however, observed, “this is a fact that many sections of people are facing inconvenience (due to odd-even scheme). Even the Parliamentarians are now facing inconvenience.”