Supreme Court of India

Bhataraju Nageshwara Rao v. The Honble Judges of the Madras High Court and Others.

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Reported as [1955] 1 S.C.R. 1055
Bench Mukherjea, S. R. Das and Vivian Bose JJ.
Decided 3 December 1954

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the order passed by the High Court should be reversed and we direct that the complaint against the appellant do stand dismissed as not proved.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Procedu·re-Supreme Court-Suspension of Advocate by High Court-Appeal to Supreme Court-Respondents to be impleaded in such appeal-Indian Bar Councils Act (XXXVIII of 1926), s. 12. y It is wrong and inappropriate to implead the Judges of the High "" Court as respondents in an appeal preferred to the Supreme Court by an Advocate against whom .an order of suspension was passed by the High Court under s. 12 of the Indian Bar Councils Act, 1926. In such appeal the proper respondents are the complainant if any, the Bar Council or Secretary thereof and the Advocate-General of the State concerned.

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