HC cannot direct to include legal services by advocates in essential services

Imran Mohd. Salar Shaikh Vs State of Maharashtra and ors. (Bombay High Court) The issue under consideration is whether the legal services should be included in the category of “essential services” for the sake of COVID-19 lockdown? High Court states that it is evident from reading the aims and object and the aforesaid provisions of the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act, 2017 that, it is within the exclusive domain of the State Legislature to legislate as to whose services to be included into the essential services, keeping in view paramount interest of the community. In the pr...