Mere furnishing of fake caste certificate not enough to remove lawyer from advocate rolls: Delhi High Court
It must also be shown that the fraud materially contributed to securing the advocate's entry on the State roll, the Court said.
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said that Section 26(1) of the Advocates Act does not give the BCI unrestricted power to remove an advocate merely because an incorrect statement was made or a non-genuine document was furnished at some stage of the enrol... [2005 chars]
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