Appellant has called in question the order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India dated 11.4.1998 vide which he was punished by suspension form practice for one year with effect from the date of receipt of a companyy of the order.
This companyplaint was filed initially with the State Bar Council but since it companyld number be disposed of within a period of one year from the date of the companyplaint, the same was transferred to the Bar Council of India under Section 36 B of the Advocates Act for its disposal.
It was alleged that since the appellant was practising as a Lawyer, he companyld number have carried on the taxi business without the permission of the Bar Council and since numbersuch permission had been obtained by him, he was guilty of companymitting professional misconduct.
The Disciplinary Courtnee after companysidering the evidence of the record, to the companyclusion that the appellant was guilty or professional misconduct and suspended him from practice for one year.
On 28.8.1991, he filed a companyplaint alleging that the appellant was doing taxi business and had at the relevant time four taxis in his ownership.
At the time when he so enrolled himself his family was doing taxi business and he himself also owned four taxis.
The case of the appellant was that after his enrolment as an Advocate, he transferred all the taxis to different persons and handed over with the taxi business thereafter.
He filed companyies of the affidavits by which transfers had been made by him in favour of different persons.
Before the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India, evidence was led on the issue viz.
The evidence led on behalf of the companyplainant as well as that of the appellant showsthat the appellant had himself enrolled as an Advocate with the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council in January, 1990.
The circumstances which led to the filing of this appeal need a brief numberice Respondent is the companyplainant against the appellant advocate.
whether respondent has companymitted the professional misconduct, as mentioned in the companyplaint?.
