Supreme Court Transfers To Itself Petition Challenging BCI's Election Code Of Conduct Rules 2023 Before Karnataka High Court
Live LawThe Supreme Court on Monday transferred to itself a pending petition before the Karnataka High Court challenging the Bar Council Of India Rules 2023 on grounds that similar cases with identical issues of conducting free and fair state bar. The Supreme Court on Monday transferred to itself a pending petition before the Karnataka High Court challenging the Bar Council Of India Rules 2023 on grounds that similar cases with identical issues of conducting free and fair state bar council elections have been transferred to the Top Court. The original petitioner before the Karnataka High Court not only challenges the Rules of 2023 but As per BCI's written submissions, the Rules of 2023 have been framed to tackle the challenges the council faces in the verification process of the lawyers and to detect fake and non-practising advocates from taking part in State Bar Council elections. The Court passed the said order in an application filed by an advocate practising in the Supreme Court challenging the BCI's direction issued in November 2022 to the State Bar Councils which, the petitioner claimed, had the effect of interdicting the verification process being undertaken by the State Bar Councils to scrutinise.