THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL WRIT PETITION No.17781 of 2025

ORDER

This writ petition is filed seeking the following relief:

“…to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, to Direct the Respondent No. 1 to take expeditious action and enrol the petitioner as an advocate on the rolls of Bar Council of Telangana., and to grant…”

2. Heard Sri G.Srinivasa Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri B.Manoj Goud, learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1 and Sri Satish Kumar, learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.2. Perused the record. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner has obtained the Bachelors of Degree in Law (LLB) in 3 year law course and submitted an application for enrolment as an Advocate on 02.07.2024 to be enrolled on the rolls of Bar Counsel of Telangana. Even after lapse of one year, no action has been taken by the respondents to enrol the petitioner as an Advocate. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner made an application under RTI Act. The Joint Secretary and PIO of RTI Act, Bar Counsel of Telangana, without giving any specific reason, issued reply stating that “the applications are to be placed before the Enrolment Committee for approval and after approval of the Enrolment Committee the same will be placed for enrolment”.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would further submit that the petitioner would be losing the opportunity of being enrolled, though he possess the necessary qualifications as prescribed under Section 24 of the Advocates Act, 1961. It is further submitted that the petitioner is fairly admits that a criminal case in Crime No.9/RCA-CR-2/2014 is pending adjudication on the file of the principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad and it is coming up for trial.

5. On the other hand, learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1 would submit that the application made by the petitioner dated 02.07.2024 shall be considered in accordance with the Rules and provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961 in due course of time, hence seeks to pass appropriate orders.

6. Sri Satish Kumar, learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.2 is sailing with the submissions made by learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1 and seeks to pass appropriate orders.

7. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel representing learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1 and learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.2, by dispensing the notice to respondent No.3 since respondent No.3 is a formal party, this Court deems it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition directing respondent No.1 to consider the application dated 02.07.2024 submitted by the petitioner for enrolment under the procedure prescribed and under the relevant provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961 and pass appropriate orders strictly in accordance with law as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within a period of six (06) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

Miscellaneous applications, if any pending, shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs.

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JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL Date: 24.10.2025 pld