<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today held as illegal the strike called by lawyers on every Saturday for the past 35 years in three district courts of Uttarakhand. A bench headed by Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah said, the strike called by lawyers on flimsy grounds is tantamount to contempt. The court issued notices to the Bar Council of India and State Bar Council seeking their response.<br />''<br />'' The apex court had earlier criticized the lawyers for holding strikes for flimsy reasons, like bomb blast in a Pakistan school and earthquake in Nepal, on all working Saturdays for more than the past 35 years.<br />''<br />''In its September 25, 2019 verdict, the high court had referred to the 266th report of the Law Commission, which had analysed data on loss of working days on account of strikes by lawyers and had opined that it affects functioning of courts and contributes to the mounting pendency of cases.</span><br />