SHILLONG: At their workplace, city-dwelling attorneys watched helplessly as soaring flames destroyed some of their best memories of taking their initial steps into the workforce.
“It is not a physical loss but an emotional loss as all the lawyers started from here,” remarked a lawyer going by the name of Gautam.
He asserts that the loss of many important files will significantly impact the court proceedings.
He said, “We keep our gowns in the cupboard with the litigants’ flies, and now everything is gone and we will have to start again.” “This is a big loss and this is a place where not only one lawyer sits but it is a working and meeting point of hundreds of lawyers,” attorney Phillip Khrawbok Shati stated.
“We won’t be able to operate efficiently since a lot of files have been lost. In the future, we would only be able to ask the court for assistance in resending a portion of the information; regrettably, certain files are no longer retrievable,” he continued.
Some people were pacing nervously about the building, while others waited outside the Bar Association’s smoke-filled chambers, staring at the space while they considered their next move.
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