Their graduation degrees under cloud, 58 lawyers may be barred from practice

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 25

In what could be an indicator of a scam, the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana has stumbled upon 58 graduation degrees submitted by lawyers for enrolment that appear to be non-genuine.

Likely to face FIR

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• Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana would send show-cause notices to lawyers
• If found guilty, they could lose their licence to practice
• The erring lawyers could even face registration of FIRs

Orders to send show-cause notices and restrain the lawyers from practice for the time being have already been issued. The degrees were submitted by the lawyers from to the Bar Council’s enrolment committee between 2017 and 2020 and the reports received from the universities concerned indicate the documents were not issued by them.

Available information suggests the Bar Council is in the process of sending notices. Enrolment committee chairman Lekh Raj Sharma said, “Documents with every application for enrolment are sent as a matter of routine for verification to the educational institutes.” Bar Council chairman Karanjit Singh said as he was out of station, he would look into the matter tomorrow.