MURARI MOHAN DUTT
BAR COUNCIL OF WEST BENGAL – Appellant
Versus
MISS AJANTA AUGHSTIN – Respondent
( 1 ) THIS Rule is at the instance of the defendants, the Bar Council of West Bengal and two others, and it is directed against order No. 12, dated April 5, 1977, of the learned Judge, Second Bench, City Civil Court, Calcutta. By the said order the learned Judge decided issue No. 2 in favour of the plaintiff. That issue relates to the jurisdiction of the City Civil Court to entertain and try the suit instituted by the plaintiff.
( 2 ) THE plaintiff is a practising advocate and her name has been entered in the State Roll maintained by the Bar Council of West Bengal, under the provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961 and the rules framed thereunder. The defendants Nos. 1, 2 and 3 held an election of the members of the Bar Council of West Bengal on Aug. 11 and 12, 1975. It is the case of the plaintiff that she came to know about the said election from her advocate friends, and on Aug. 12, 1975 the plaintiff went to cast her vote in the said election, but she was refused to cast vote by the Polling Agent, who was conducting the election at the election booth situate in the City Civil Court building, Calcutta. It is alleged by her that her name was not in the elect
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