According to section 35 of indian advocates act 1961, the bar council can take necessary action against a lawyer if he/she is guilty of professional or any other misconduct. consider the following case:-
a lady lawyer X is practicing her degree. one afternoon she wears her law attire/uniform of black dress and attacks another lady Y . Y has done no harm to X nor has she provoked her by either words or actions. Y was just walking on street along with her daughter. X beats Y in a violent and vigourous manner. she beats her in front of the entire public.Subsequently Y’s clothes are torn and she had to face a lot of humiliation in front of the public. Y, in order to get justice approaches the bar council. X had used her status of being a lawyer in a disgraceful manner and misused her power by humiliating Y. Y’s daughter ( of 6 years)had seen all these things and suffered mental trauma. Y has all the witnesses against X. now please answer these two questions:-
1) can the bar council punish X or take away her power to practice her degree on grounds of behavior misconduct as per sec.35 of advocates act?
2) is there any real case in Indian legal history a bit similar as above mentioned whereby a lawyer has been punished for his/her misuse of law degree? If yes please mention the case and year…
Please reply as soon as possible
