In Bar Council of India vs. Poonam Ashok Goud (2025), a 3-judge bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan, disapproved of the prolonged verification process initiated by the Bar Council of India (BCI) since 2015. It's order of January 23, 2025 reads: "The Bar Council of India shall file an updated status report,indicating the States where the verification of the Advocates enrolled and on the rolls of the State Bar Councils is still pending. The said status report will be filed within eight weeks from today with a copy to the opposite side." The Court has re-listed the in the week commencing July 21,2025.
The Supreme Court had issued notice on January, 20, 2024 in a Transfer Petitions (Civil). The case arose from decisions of Delhi High Court in WP(C)-15576-2022, and WP(C)-14780-2023, Andhra Pradesh High Court in WPSR-50755-2023 and WPSR-51695-2023 and Uttarakhand High Court in WPMS-2136-2023.
On February, 9, 20244, BCI's case was tagged with the transfer petitions. In none of the Court's orders of there is any specific reference to fake degree of Advocates.
The case was filed on December 29, 2023. It was registered on January 12, 2024 and verified on January 16, 2024. BCI has filed the case against eleven respondents namely, Poonam Ashok Goud, Bar Council of Telangana, Awanish Kumar, WBar Council of Delhi, Shaik Umar Basha, Union of India represented by Secretary Government of India, Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh, Arun Uniyal, 9 Bar Council of State of Uttarakhand, State of Uttarakhand and Yenumala Suresh Babu
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