Lawyer fined Rs.25,000 for filing false affidavits
October 21st, 2009 - 10:23 pm ICT by IANS ( 1 comment )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.
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December 5th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Being a regular reader at this site and being an advocate, it is my responsibility to submit news which are a followup to the news already covered by your website. On 21.10.09 you had reported the news pertaining to levy of a cost of Rs.25,000 against advocate Rajender Kumar Panigrahi. In follow up to this news, it is brought to your kind attention that listening an application for recalling the order dated 20.10.09, Justice Mr. Shiv Narayan Dhingra directed the Bar Council to frame guidelines, rules guiding the conduct and ethics of advocates in the courts as well directed the Supreme Court Bar Association President Senior Advocate M.N.Krishnamani to ensure that young and struggling advocates joining the Bar to be given reasonable remuneration. The said Order was passed during the proceedings on 25.11.09. Regards