Rawalpindi: More than 100 fake lawyers are present in district courts and practicing for years, District Bar Association (DBA), Rawalpindi President Khurram Masood Kiani told ‘The News’ on Friday.
On the confirmation of Punjab Bar Council (PBC), District Bar Association (DBA), Rawalpindi has registered 13 FIRs against fake lawyers practicing in district courts for years and looting innocent public.
DBA, Rawalpindi president said that we are going to start operation against the fake lawyers. Dozens of clients have pointed us about such phoney lawyers. “The District and Sessions Judge, Rawalpindi has also showed concerns about fake lawyers in the Judicial Complex,” he said.
Supreme Court of Pakistan has also pointed out the presence of a large number of fake lawyers, saying that advocates who did not even have intermediate level education are engaged in legal practice.
Kiani said that we have doubt about some female lawyers as well. We have sent all information about some dubious lawyers to Punjab Bar Council (PBC) for confirmation.
After the verification we will register FIRs against such lawyers, he warned. Only Higher Education Commission recognised degree-holder will practice in district court others will be sent to jail, he warned. We would also take help from NADRA for verification about the dubious lawyers, he said.
The bar politics grouping along various ethnic, sectarian and political lines and senior-junior divide and lack of will has hindered such an operation in the past therefore number of bogus lawyers increasing-day-to-day.
According to some senior lawyers on anonymity said that bogus lawyers play a role during elections of bar associations so a number of lawyers particularly candidates do not want any operation against such lawyers.
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