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The standards of ethical values are higher for lawyers, the Supreme Court connected Friday (January 9, 2026) said portion refusing to let a plea of a Telangana lawyer who has been barred from contesting the upcoming State Bar Council elections connected relationship of pending transgression complaints.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and M. Vipul Pancholi prima facie observed that “he is not the idiosyncratic who should beryllium allowed to contention the (Telangana State Bar Council) elections.” The apical tribunal was proceeding a plea of Rapolu Bhaskar, a salient Telangana High Court advocate, assailing provisions of disqualification of an advocator successful State Bar Council.
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Referring to the provisions, a lawyer, representing Mr. Bhaskar, said helium was neither convicted nor punished successful immoderate matter. “The modular of ethical values is higher for lawyers,” the CJI said, adding that lawyers often attack courts erstwhile immoderate tainted idiosyncratic is contesting wide elections.
Referring to the caller mediocre nationalist cognition astir barroom leaders, the CJI said if the barroom bodies are trying to support definite nonrecreational standards past they should not beryllium stopped from doing so.
The counsel for Mr. Bhaskar said helium filed astir 22,000 cases successful his vocation arsenic a lawyer truthful far, and helium should not beryllium stopped from contesting elections connected the ground of 2 complaints which person been filed by 3rd parties.
Senior advocator and Bar Council of India Chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said that elected members of a State Bar Council besides execute a quasi-judicial relation by deciding disciplinary cases against the lawyers.
The CJI said, “If the lawyer persists with the statement that his plea beryllium decided, past the Bench volition walk immoderate orders. Sensing the outcome, the lawyer decided to retreat the case.”
Following orders from the Supreme Court, the State Bar Council elections successful Telangana are scheduled to beryllium completed by January 31.
