Lawyer Licence Cancelled, HC Notice to Law College

Swati Deshpande TNN 

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday heard a petition filed by a lawyer Mahendra Kawchale against the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa for cancelling his sanad in January 2012 and issued a notice to the UP university and the University Grants Commission (UGC). Kawchale’s counsel M P Vashi told a bench of Justices D YChandrachud and R D Dhanuka that the law degree of Kawchale was from the Bharatiya Shiksha Parishad, Uttar Pradesh, which he was awarded in 1995 after “validly completing three years of LLB”. The court posted the matter for further hearing on September 3. 
 
    The council’s former chairperson passed the order after a hearing, on January 17 to revoke the licence, holding that his degree on the basis of which he had obtained his sanad was forged. Kawchale was given letters by the UP college to show his degree was genuine and said the state bar council could not revoke the licence unless there was misconduct.

Source ::: The Times of India, 14-08-2012, p.05. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW