Bar Council Of Kerala To Enquire On Kottayam Lawyers Agitation Against Chief Judicial Magistrate
The Bar Council of Kerala has constituted a Sub-Committee comprising K. P Jayachandran, Joseph John, K. K Nazzer , S. Sudarsanakumar, K.R Rajkumar and P.A Mohammed Sha for inquiring into the reasons that led to the Kottayam lawyers’ agitation against the Chief Judicial Magistrate and the subsequent developments. K. P Jayachandran is the Convenor of the Sub-Committee and Joseph John is...
The Bar Council of Kerala has constituted a Sub-Committee comprising K. P Jayachandran, Joseph John, K. K Nazzer , S. Sudarsanakumar, K.R Rajkumar and P.A Mohammed Sha for inquiring into the reasons that led to the Kottayam lawyers’ agitation against the Chief Judicial Magistrate and the subsequent developments. K. P Jayachandran is the Convenor of the Sub-Committee and Joseph John is the Member Secretary of the Sub-Committee. The Sub-Committee shall visit the Kottayam Court Centre and submit a report before the Bar Council within a period of seven days.
The advocates of the Kottayam Bar Association abstained from attending court proceedings on Thursday to protest against the initiation of criminal proceedings against Advocate Nawab M.P. based on a complaint of the Chief Judicial Magistrate. Pursuant to this, there were protest marches held in the Kottayam Court Centre against the Chief Judicial Magistrate.
The allegation was that Advocate Nawab forged the identity card of a surety for obtaining a bail bond in the year 2013. The criminal proceedings were initiated based on a complaint made by the concerned Chief Judicial Magistrate after the surety in question testified that his identity card was forged. An FIR was registered and Advocate Nawab was made the second accused for the commission of offences under Sections 465 (punishment for forgery), 466( Forgery of record of Court or of public register), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) read with 34 (common intention) of IPC.
Significantly, Nawab was granted bail in the matter by the Sessions Court, observing that a detailed investigation was necessary. Sessions judge N. Harikumar noted that there was no allegation that Nawab himself forged the documents. However, since there was an allegation that he produced forged documents before the Court, the Sessions judge said that the matter could be investigated in a detailed manner.