PAWAN KUMAR SHARMA Vs. GURDIAL SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Appellant has called in question the order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India dated 11-4-1998 vide which he was punished by suspension from practice for one year with effect from the date of receipt of a copy of the order. The circumstances which led to the filing of this appeal need a brief notice :

(2.) The evidence led on behalf of the complainant as well as that of the appellant shows that the appellant had himself enrolled as an Advocate with the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council in January, 1990. At the time when he so enrolled himself his family was doing taxi business and he himself also owned four taxis. The case of the appellant was that after his enrolment as an Advocate, he transferred all the taxis to different persons and handed over their possession to them and that he did not carry on with the "taxi business" thereafter. He filed copies of the affidavits by which transfers had been made by him in favour of different persons.

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