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IQBAL AHMAD
In Re: Bhairo Dutt Bhandari, An Advocate – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Iqbal Ahmad, J. - On the receipt of a complaint of one Prem Singh dated 23rd December 1937, about the alleged professional misconduct of Mr. Bhairo Dutt Bhandari, an advocate on the rolls of this Court and practising in the Courts at Ranikhet, this Court referred the case for inquiry to the Bar Council and the case was in due course enquired into by a tribunal of the council appointed by the Hon'ble the Chief Justice. The charge framed by the Tribunal against the advocate was as follows:
That you, Mr. Bhairo Datt Bhandari, an advocate on the rolls of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad while practising in the Courts of the Kumaun Division, subordinate to the said High Court,.have been for a considerable time past carrying on money-lending business which is against the rules governing professional etiquette and have thereby been guilty of professional misconduct.
2. The advocate concerned filed a written statement in the course of which he admitted that during a period of ten years, viz, from 1926 to 1936, he advanced loans on promissory notes and mortgages on no less than 12 occasions. Out of these 12 transactions of loan three advances were on the security of immovable
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