TN Bar Council Suspends Advocate-Couple For Blocking Car of HC Judge & Abusing Driver [Read Order]

The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry has suspended an advocate-couple from practicing for fifteen days, on the charge that they blocked the car of a judge of Madras High Court and entered into a verbal quarrel with his driver in public view.The allegation is that on July 30 at about 9.40 AM, a car driven by advocate Sahul Hameed, in which his wife advocate Shika Sarmadan was. The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry has suspended an advocate-couple from practicing for fifteen days, on the charge that they blocked the car of a judge of Madras High Court and entered into a verbal quarrel with his driver in public view. Acting on it, a three member Special Committee of the Bar Council consisting of Advocate General Vijay Narayan, Senior Advocate R Singaravelan and Advocate Chandrasekharan issued notice on August 6, imposing order of interim suspension stating " a necessity has arisen in public interest to place both of you under interim suspension of practice prohibiting you to practise in any Court or Tribunal or Quasi Judicial Tribunal within the territory of India until further orders to protect and uphold the confidence and faith of public on the Hon'ble Judges and Judiciary". The notice made references to the Supreme Court decisions Harish Uppal v Union of India 2 SCC 45, Bar Council of Maharashtra v. M V Dhabolkara 2 SCC 291 and D.P Chadha v. Triyogi Narayan Misra 2 SCC 291 regarding the duty of an advocate to conduct himself in an honourable and noble manner.