New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Delhi High Court Wednesday fined a lawyer Rs.25,000 for misleading the court by filing false affidavits and also directed the Bar Council to initiate proceedings to cancel his licence.
Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra ordered the fine on advocate Raj Kumar Panigrahi and directed the registrar general of the high court to file a complaint against him and his client for trying to defraud the Court.

“I consider that conduct of counsel for the defendant is unbecoming of an advocate. It only looks that the advocate has lost sense of professional ethics. He misled the litigant and even forged his diary to show to the Court that he had noted wrong date,” Justice Dhingra noted in the order.

The court also asked the Bar Council to initiate proceedings for cancellation of Panigrahi’s licence to practice.