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The Meerut Bar Association’s Elders Committee Can’t be Reconstituted by the UP Bar Council: Allahabad High Court [READ ORDER]

Lawstreet Journal 14 Oct 2020 12:18am

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary The Meerut Bar Association’s Elders Committee Can’t be Reconstituted by the UP Bar Council:  Allahabad High Court [READ ORDER]

A Division Bench of Allahabad High Court consisting of Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Ajay Bhanot while dealing with a writ petition filed by the Meerut Bar Association against the re-constitution of its Elders Committee by the Bar Council of Upstate that the chairman of Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh doesn’t have the power and jurisdiction for the reconstitution of the Elders Committee using the Bye-laws of the Association concerned and the Elders Committee is a statutory committee, disputes concerning to its constitution can only be raised either before it or the General Body of the Bar Association. 

The Court held that “In light of the controversy before us in the instant case, having reached the conclusion that the Chairman, Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh had no jurisdiction to usurp the power for the constitution of the Elders Committee under the Bye-laws of the Association, we hold that all steps were taken by the respondent No.3 towards the holding of elections of the Association including its resolution dated 15.07.2020, 05.08.2020 and 20.08.2020 are without jurisdiction and, thus, illegal”. 

The court further said that “The Elder's Committee being a statutory permanent body constituted under the Byelaws could not have been replaced by the Chairman of the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh on its own. The order impugned does not record that any notice was issued to the members of the Elders Committee who have been replaced, though the Bar Council of India was bereft of the power to do so”. 

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