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PETITIONER: MR. C.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE ADVOCATE-GENERAL OF MADRAS
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 06/05/1957
BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. JAGANNADHADAS, B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 722 1957 SCR 1092
ACT: Professional misconduct-Advocate borne on the rolls of a High Court and Supreme Court-Debarred by High Court on Bar Council’s report-Summons by Supreme Court-Procedure-Supreme Court Rules, 0. IV, r. 30.
HEADNOTE: The appellant, an Advocate whose name was borne on the rolls of the Madras High Court and of the Supreme Court, was found guilty of gross professional misconduct by the Madras High Court on the report of the Bar Council Tribunal and debarred from 1093 practising in that Court. The charge against him was that he did not utilise a particular sum of money entrusted to him by his client to clear a mortgage in order to secure a clear title for him in completion of a transaction of sale, for that purpose nor account for it. The appellant preferred an appeal by special leave and this Court, being apprised of the order passed by the’ Madras High Court, issued a Rule under r. 30, 0. IV of the Supreme Court Rules. It was found by this Court that the charge against the appellant was fully supported by a large volume of evidence on record, both oral and documentary. Held, that the appeal must be dismissed and the Rule...