High Court: Notice to two lawyers who misled the court, asked how one order is of two types, why action should not be taken A to Z Counsel

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The Allahabad High Court has issued notices to two advocates Adya Prasad Tiwari and Pradeep Kumar Pandey seeking explanation as to why they have filed two orders of the same date in the same case. Why not ask the UP Bar Council to take action against you. After the rejection of one application, the court has sought a separate personal affidavit from the fraudulent petitioner by filing second anticipatory bail application as to why he should not be prosecuted. The Court has requested the President and the General Secretary of the High Court Bar Association to suggest what action should be taken in view of the conduct of these two lawyers. The application will be heard on February 7.

Justice Manju Rani Chauhan has given this order while hearing the anticipatory bail application filed for the second time by Sandeep Kumar Bishnoi and 3 others. An FIR was registered against the petitioners at Meerut’s Sardhana police station on charges of cheating and embezzlement under the Essential Commodities Act. The petitioners filed anticipatory bail application, the court rejected the application considering it baseless. No permission was given to file a second application in that.

After this, this application was filed for the second time. In which the first application has been returned and dismissed. The public prosecutor told the court that the order of the court attached with the petition is different from his file. On this, the court called for the records of the first petition. The petition in the name of the same person and two different orders of the same date were found. went. The counsel for the petitioner did not appear during the hearing.

Referring to the professional norms, the Court observed that the Court respects and trusts the arguments of the advocates, but rarely disbelieves the arguments of the advocates. is going to affect. Lawyers have an obligation to set ethical standards in order to maintain traditional trust and professional security. These lawyers have behaved irresponsibly.