BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA Vs. RAM CHANDRA PRASAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) DELAY condoned. Leave granted. The Bar Council of India is in appeal against the impugned order and direction of a learned Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court dtd. 20/12/2000.

(2.) THE respondent, an advocate, filed an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India assailing the legality of the order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India. After serving a copy of the same on the Bar Council of India as well as other respondents intimating therein that the matter would be moved on a particular date; on the date the matter was posted, the learned Single Judge allowed the prayer of the respondent, even in the absence of the Bar Council of India, and set aside the order of the Bar Council of India with certain further directions. It is this order, which is the subject-matter of challenge in this appeal.

(3.) ON examining the aforesaid provisions of the rule, we are, however, unable to persuade ourselves to agree with the submissions made by the respondent-in-person.