Advocates – Election of members of the Bar Association – Role to be played by the members of the Bar in the administration of justice delivery system – On facts, in election of Awadh Bar Association scheduled to be held on 14.08.2021, the candidates/advocates alongwith their supporters entered into the voting arena and indulged in tearing ballot papers and in pushing female lawyers and misbehaving with them – One lawyer was seriously injured and his hand got fractured in the incident – Another lawyer suffered heart attack – High Court took suo moto cognizance and issued various directions including to hold fresh elections on 25.09.2021 – Held: The directions as issued by High Court cannot be faulted in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, which were issued to maintain the purity of the election of the Bar Association – No member of the Bar can be permitted to misbehave in the premises of the High Court – The manner in which the lawyers acted and misbehaved on 14.08.2021 in the premises of the High Court, where the election of the Bar Association was going on, cannot be tolerated and accepted and is deprecated – Office bearers of the Bar Association are to be elected by the genuine voters and the advocates genuinely / regularly practicing in the High Court and/or the Court concerned, and outsiders not regularly practicing in that court cannot be permitted to hijack the system by permitting them to take part in the election process of electing members of the Bar Association – Ethics.
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