HARINDER SINGH SIDHU, J.

1. This judgment shall dispose of CWP Nos.5232, 23865, 24392 and 25912 of 2015 as similar issues are involved therein.

2. The question raised in the present petitions is whether the Bar Association (Constitution and Registration) Rules, 2015 (for short “the 2015 Rules”) are ultra vires being beyond the Rule making powers of the State Bar Council under the Advocates Act, 1961 (for short “the 1961 Act”) ? And further whether the said Rules are violative of the rights of the petitioners as guaranteed under Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution?

3. Vide judgment dated 04.08.2015, this Court had disposed of a bunch of petitions bearing CWP No. 6047 of 2015, Harjot Singh Harikey Vs. Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana High Court and other connected cases which raised issue of validity of the 2015 Rules. As during the course of hearing of those petitions, challenge to the Rules was given up, the cases were disposed of in terms of an agreed order. SLP (Civil) No. 26871 of 2015 titled 'Deepak Kundu and others Vs. Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana and others' was filed wherein a grievance was raised by the Rohtak and Panipat Bar Associations that they were not pa