HC restrains Bar Council of India from alloting any official

The Madras High court today restrained the Bar Council of India and Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry from alloting any official duty to its ad hoc committee member T. Michael Stanis Prabhu in view of his alleged involvement in a case of stabbing a fellow advocate andmember of the Tuticorin Bar Association on October 20.
Justice M.Sathyanarayana of the court's Madurai Bench gave the direction after hearing a plea filed by V.Chinnadurai, Joint secretary of Tuticorin Bar association.
The petitioner alleged that Stanis Prabhu who got elected with the help of non-practising advocates,was involved in 18 criminal cases,though acquitted in some of them.

The members, who were unhappy with his functioning, removed him as President of the Tuticorin Bar association on July27,2016.
Knowing full well that he could not get back his post, he indulged in false allegations against the bar association members and lodged multiple complaints before the bar council suppressing all criminal cases pending against him, the petitioner said.
Besides Stanis Prabhu and some others had allegedly stabbed Raghuraman of the bar association on October 20,causing him serious injury, he said.

Though police registered cases against him,they had not arrested him despite the fact that the court had dismissed his anticipatory bail application.

The members had passed a resolution that they were feeling insecure and submitted it to the principal district and sessions judge,and Chief Judicial Magistrate, but police were hesitating to take action because he was member of the bar council.
He managed to become the member of the ad hoc committee of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry bar council despite criminal cases against him, the petitione said. Hence the court should direct the council to remove him from membership of the ad hoc committee and restrain him from functioning as member.