JUDGMENT

Thomas, J.-Nilgiris Bar Association (Tamil Nadu) is in no mood to reconcile with the easy escape made by an imposter in the legal profession from the penal clutches of law. Without enrollment with any Bar Council and without any academic qualification to practise law he managed to get entry into the legal profession by wangling a membership from the Nilgiris Bar Association, and flourished in his practice as an advocate before all the courts including sessions courts in the district for a long period of eight years. But his hay days did not last longer as the vigilant Bar discovered that he was an interloper in the profession. A complaint was lodged with the police and after investigation a charge-sheet was laid before the Judicial Magistrate concerned. He then adopted a strategy to skip out of the penal tentacles by pleading guilty to the charge and praying for mercy of the Court. The strategy worked as the magistrate released him under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act 1958 (for short the Act ).

2. The concerned Bar Association aggrieved by the manner in which they and the litigant public were hood-winked by the said person for a pretty long period, approached