March 31: After 10 days of pandemonium, work resumed at Jamshedpur Civil court, while the Jharkhand High Court Advocates? Association took a resolution to construct a building for its members at a meeting held in Ranchi today.

Despite the resumption of work by the lawyers, the turnout of litigants was very thin when the proceedings began in the court. However, the premises began to bustle with activities as the day proceeded.

The ambience of the District Bar Building was, however, sombre throughout the day. A section of lawyers felt let down by those who spearheaded the agitation. The only thing the bar members had to cheer about was the floating of a tender for construction of an additional staircase in the District Bar building.

Maintaining that the lawyers? strike was a success, the District Bar Association secretary, H.K. Chowdhury, told The Telegraph that the public works department has floated the tender for constructing the additional staircase in the bar building urgently. The estimated cost of the additional staircase is Rs 5.6 lakh and is scheduled to be complete in the next three months.

?The demand for additional staircase in the bar building was our one of the main demands. We still persist with our demand for the removal of district judge R.N. Verma and judge-in-charge M.Y. Eqbal,? said Chowdhury.

The secretary said a copy of the resolution adopted at the general body meeting yesterday would shortly be sent to the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court for his perusal.

He pointed out that the agitating lawyers called off their strike after the High Court?s assurance that most of the demands of the District Bar Association members would be met by April 20.

In Ranchi, the advocates of Jharkhand High Court vowed to construct a state-of-the-art Bar Bhavan for its members in a meeting today. The lawyers of the high court face eviction threat as the premises belong to the court. The proposed five-storeyed building would sprawl over an area of 15,000 square feet.