JUDGMENT :

1. The present writ petition has been filed for quashing the resolution of emergent meeting of Jharkhand State Bar Council held on 09.12.2020 pursuant to the order dated 14.10.2019 passed by a Bench of this Court in W.P.(C) No.675 of 2017, whereby affiliation of the petitioner with the Council has been denied. Further prayer has been made for issuance of direction upon the respondent-Jharkhand State Bar Council to register/affiliate the petitioner-association under the Bihar State Advocates’ Welfare Fund Act, 1983 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the Act, 1983’) and/or the Advocates/Bar Associations Affiliation Rules, 2006 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the Rules, 2006’) or under other relevant Act or Rules or Regulations.

2. The factual background of the case, as stated in the writ petition, is that the petitioner is an association of lawyers, which was formed in the year 1965. It has its office at Sales Tax Building, Sakchi, Jamshedpur and presently there are about 127 members in the petitioner- association. The members of the petitioner- association were facing difficulties by the act/conduct of the District Bar Association and as such they felt it necessary to get the