JUDGMENT :

K. Murali Shankar, J.

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for issuance of a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to permit enrollment of the petitioner as an Advocate on the Roll of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.)

1. The petitioner has filed the above petition, seeking writ of Mandamus, directing the respondents 1 and 2 to permit enrollment of the petitioner as an Advocate on the Roll of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry within stipulated time.

2. The petitioner, after completion of B.Sc (Computer Science) and M.C.A, joined B.L Course in the Government Law College, Tirunelveli in the year 2015. After completion of Law Degree, he applied to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to enroll him as an Advocate. The respondents sent the petitioner's application for Police verification. The Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli District has sent a proceedings on 20.11.2020 and a copy of the same was served on the petitioner. The petitioner was shocked to learn from the said proceedings that the Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli District had stated that totally, 85 criminal cases were lodged against the