JUDGMENT - R.M. Lodha, J.:---Whether there is anything wrong in the decision dated 24th April, 1990 taken by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India not to allow the Advocates to practise as Company Secretaries is the principal question in these two writ petitions and, therefore, these writ petitions were heard together and are disposed of by this common judgment.

2. In Writ Petition No. 398 of 1990 Shri T.U. Khatri is the petitioner. According to Shri Khatri he was granted certificate to practise law by the Bar Council of Maharashtra on 30th June, 1973. Shri Khatri claims to have passed final examination conducted by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (for short the Institute) and was admitted as an Associate Member of the Institute w.e.f. 30th October, 1970. Subsequently Shri Khatri was made Fellow Member of the Institute w.e.f. 23rd August, 1976. Upon application made by Shri Khatri to the Institute and upon fulfilment of requisite conditions including the No objection from the Bar Council of Maharashtra. Shri Khatri was issued certificate of practice by the Institute in accordance with the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (for short "the Act of 1980") and the Compa

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