Bengaluru: The State’s legal fraternity will launch a week-long relay hunger strike from Monday to protest the delay on the part of the Supreme Court and the Union government in appointing judges to the vacant posts in the High Court of Karnataka.

The legal fraternity will abstain from the proceedings of the courts across the State a week after the week-long hunger strike, and hold a day-long demonstration in front of Parliament House, New Delhi.

A resolution in this regard was passed at a special meeting of several designated senior advocates, members of the Karnataka State Bar Council, and executive committee members of the Advocates’ Association, Bengaluru, held at the court premises recently.

The meeting also resolved to meet the Chief Justice of India and the members of the Supreme Court’s collegium to submit a memorandum urging them to make appointments at the earliest. It was resolved in the meeting to meet the Prime Minister and the Minister for Law and Justice along with the Union Ministers and Members of Parliament from Karnataka in this regard.