NEW DELHI: With two PILs heaping allegations towards functioning of advocates regulatory physique Bar Council of India and questioning legality of its Apr 2025 decision giving a five-year time period to chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra, Supreme Courtroom Wednesday stated no decision can override the statutorily prescribed two-year time period.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana stated even when a BCI decision generously provides a five-year time period to the chairperson, his tenure ex-facie can not exceed past 2027 however the legality of the decision.Petitioners query lavish spendNo decision can alter the statutorily offered two-year tenure for the chairperson,” the bench stated.The petitioners questioned the lavish spending of crores on felicitation capabilities, organising seminars and alleged misuse of Bar Council of India belief funds to open regulation faculties in states and demanded a high-level inquiry into the council’s affairs.The bench stated the elections to state bar councils had been accomplished and directed the completion of co-option of girls members by the excessive court docket chief justices involved in session with newly elected members inside two weeks.All the composition of state bar councils, together with co-opted ladies members, could be notified inside per week thereafter.
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It stated the newly fashioned state bar councils would elect their consultant to BCI per week later to allow the latter to conduct recent election of the chairperson and the vice-chairperson.Until then, the BCI governing physique would act in a professional tem method and never take any coverage resolution.On the bench’s suggestion, the council volunteered to ask the legal professional common and the solicitor common to its conferences.Mishra has been chairperson of BCI since Nov 9, 2014.The petitioners requested whether or not a statutory authority entrusted with “regulating greater than 20 lakh advocates, administering authorized training, conducting the All India Bar Examination, exercising disciplinary jurisdiction, and safeguarding independence of the authorized occupation, can lawfully allow extended focus of regulatory authority in the identical fingers by way of successive and considerably uncontested phrases”.
