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The Kerala High Court has dismissed the plea of a registered aesculapian practioner to beryllium enrolled arsenic an advocate. “She ought to cancel her registration arsenic a aesculapian practitioner if she wants to enrol arsenic an advocate,” the tribunal held.
The petitioner, a instrumentality graduate, had cancelled her licence issued by the section municipality to tally a homeopathic clinic, earlier joining the LL.B course. However, her exertion for enrolment was refused by the Bar Council of Kerala (BCK). During verification, it was recovered that she had besides submitted an undertaking that she would not practise medicine portion successful the ineligible profession, and that if she decided to bash so, she would suspend her enrolment.
The BCK contended that it had a work to guarantee that an applicant was not engaged successful immoderate different profession, and that the request to cancel her registration arsenic a aesculapian practitioner was to guarantee that a idiosyncratic did not prosecute 2 professions astatine the aforesaid time. The counsel besides cited the Kerala State Medical Practitioners Act, 2021 wherever it is amerciable to practise immoderate different assemblage portion being a registered aesculapian practitioner.
The tribunal held that the BCK was entitled to contradict the petitioner her close to enrol arsenic an advocate, unless her registration arsenic a homeopath was cancelled.
