Jahanvi Agarwal
Supreme Court judge, Justice BR Gavai observed that the top court’s Advocates-on-Record are being treated like postmen during the contempt proceedings against two advocates.
The Justice anticipated that Advocates-on-Record only file petitions that have already been written by other advocates and do not contribute their own minds to the pleadings.
The above-stated comments were made by Justices BR Gavai and JB Pardiwala’s bench during the hearing of a suo motu contempt action brought against an advocate and an attorney-on-record over the derogatory averments made in a special leave petition against a Karnataka High Court Bench.
Before adjourning the hearing to the end of July, the Apex Court requested the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA), and the Bar Council of India (BCI) for expertise in handling similar cases of misconduct by advocates-on-record.
A practicing advocate Mohan Chandra P had filed a writ petition before the Karnataka High Court, challenging the selection of the chief information commissioner and the information commissioners by the Karnataka government.