Kanpur Bar Association debars 16 lawyers for misconduct

KANPUR: Kanpur Bar Association (KBA) on Monday debarred as many as 16 lawyers for misconduct and decided to refer their cases to Bar Council of UP for action.
These lawyers are Jitendra Kumar Bajpai, Dharmendra Singh, Brajesh Kumar Verma, Sunil Kumar Pandey, Kuldeep Singh, Krishnanand Jha, Ranjay Singh, Pankaj Gaur, Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Shamsher Singh, Shyam Singh, Amit Dixit , Ghanshyam Yadav, Sarvesh Shukla and Vivek Verma.
Kanpur Bar Association president Ramendra Singh Katiyar said that these lawyers have taken possession of chambers constructed by the KBA illegally. Their act amounts to misconduct.
KBA had issued notices twice to them and pasted copies of notices at the illegally occupied chambers but they not responded so far.
The executive committee discussed the issue and took a decision to expel them on November 22, 2012 and January 11, 2013. And finally it was decided to debar them from membership of KBA and apprise the Bar Council of UP for appropriate action, Katiyar said.