Ask State bar council to dispose complaints against advocates with a year: SC to BCI
The Hindu
The court said that having regard to the fact that 1246 complaints are pending before the BCI
The Supreme Court has directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to issue directions to State bar councils to dispose of the complaints against lawyers received under Section 35 of the Advocates Act within a year.
The top court further directed BCI to dispose of the transferred complaints within a period of one year from the date of receipt of such complaints.
A bench comprising justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna said complaints should be transferred from the State to BCI only in exceptional cases with valid reasons.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.