The appellant companytended before the Disciplinary Committee of the BCI that there was numbersuch letter dated 01.06.2010 purported to be written by the Registrar Inspection , High Court of Gujarat on the basis of which companynizance against appellant had been taken.
The appellant, who was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Gujarat, got elected to the post of Secretary of Gandhinagar Bar Association in 2007 and subsequently he was elected as the President of the Bar Association in 2008.
One Mr. P.D. Kanani, who was the Secretary of the Bar Association due to differences leveled false allegations and filed false civil and criminal cases against the appellant and also wrote a letter dated 04.09.2008 in this regard to the Secretary, Bar Council of Gujarat alleging that he was denied access to certain records and the accounts and there was misappropriation of huge amount of the Bar Association.
The Disciplinary Committee, after hearing the appellant, vide order dated 20.06.2015 remanded the matter to the Bar Council of Gujarat with a direction to dispose of the case within a period of one year.
It is interesting to numbere that Mr. Preet Pal Singh, the learned companynsel for BCI would companycede that the said statutory authority has numbersuch power.
Being aggrieved, the appellant has filed the present appeal.
The differences and the misunderstanding between the appellant and Mr. P.D. Kanani was resolved and a settlement was arrived at between the parties on 18.09.2008 and the book of accounts and other records were handed over by the appellant to Mr. Kanani.
197/2011.
