Thousands Of Fraudulent Lawyers, BCI Won't Do Anything; Need CBI To Verify Law Degrees : CJI Surya Kant

Observing that there appeared to be several bogus advocates in Delhi, the Chief Justice of India on Friday observed that he was thinking of ordering a CBI investigation into the genuineness of their law degrees.

CJI Surya Kant observed that he has noticed the comments being made on social media by these lawyer, and questioned the genuineness of their law degrees.

A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing an application filed by an advocate against the Delhi High Court over senior designations.

While pulling up the petitioner for his repeated petitions, the CJI shared his views about some of the lawyers in Delhi.

"I am waiting for some matter...I want the CBI to verify the LLB degrees of most of the Delhi people...in Tis Hazari so and so...the kind of Facebook and things they are putting....do they think we are not watching?BCI will not do anything...thousands of them are fraudulent people who are wearing black robes...I have serious doubts on the genuineness of their law degrees. Probably CBI will have to do something. BCI will never do, because they are hands in glove, they are absolutely in collusion," CJI said.

The CJI said that there were enough "parasites" in society who are attacking the judiciary, and said that lawyers should not join hands with them.

"There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them? There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment and don't have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, some of them become RTI activists, some of them become other activists, and they start attacking everyone...and you people file contempt petitions!" CJI said.

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