ORDER

Shri Haresh M. Patel, the appellant in Civil Appeal No. 2145 of 1993, is the plaintiff in Suit No. 433 of 1969, a partition suit pending in the Bombay High Court. Shri Pinakin Bhallal Amin (of M/s. B. Amin & Co.) the appellant in Civil Appeal Nos. 9312-9313 of 1994, is an advocate and solicitor practising in Bombay High Court since 1971. Shri Patel engaged Shri Amin to appear as a lawyer for him in his suit. It appears that some differences developed between the client and the counsel which led Shri Patel to move an application before the Bombay High Court seeking discharge of Shri Amin. The prayer for discharge was resisted by Shri Amin, withholding the consent on the ground that certain bills due and payable by Shri Patel to him were outstanding and so long as the bills were not cleared, Shri Patel could not have sought for discharge of Shri Amin, Shri Patel filed a complaint under Section 35 of the Advocates Act, 1961 before the Bar Council of Maharashtra, setting out several instances of misconduct allegedly committed by Shri Amin including the unreasonable withholding of consent to his discharge. The complaint remained pending for quite some time before the State Bar Coun