CHENNAI: The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu (BCT) has notified that 100 advocates, who have obtained postgraduate degree without undergoing basic degree course and formal 12 years of schooling, have been removed from the council rolls.
The enrolment committee chairman, D. Selvam, said those who were de-registered had enrolled themselves in 2008. Verification of certificates of others was on, he said.
The council had already rejected the application for enrolment of 34 persons, Mr. Selvam said.
In February 2008, a Division Bench of the Madras High Court declared the M.A. degree, obtained through the open university system without undergoing basic graduation course and formal 12 years of school education as invalid.
During the pendency of the appeal before the Supreme Court, a few candidates, who obtained post-graduate degree without undergraduation and formal school education, applied for enrolment, but the BCT had declined to enrol them.
Some of them filed writ petitions and the High Court issued interim direction to enrol the candidates subject to the outcome of the appeal before the Supreme Court.
Accordingly, the candidates were enrolled.
In February this year, the Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court judgment.
Therefore, the matter had reached the finality, the BCT said in its notification.
