The Punjab Bar Council has declared 564 lawyers practicing in courts across Punjab including in the Rawalpindi district as fake after receiving full scrutiny and verification reports of degrees from various universities.
The bar council has sent the lists with full details of all these to the presidents and secretaries of all the 36 district bars of Punjab and has also issued instructions to them to take immediate action and register cases against all such ‘fake’ lawyers.
The ‘fake’ lawyers have disappeared from the court areas immediately after the report of the Punjab Bar Council, and have also taken their belongings from their chambers built in the court areas.
But still, cases will be registered against all these ‘fake’ lawyers in local police stations.
The law degrees of most of these lawyers have been declared ‘fake’ by the universities, the bar council said adding that the graduation degrees of many lawyers have also been declared fake.
A crackdown on fake lawyers has also been started across Punjab.
District Bar Association President Faisal Khan Niazi said that action has been initiated against all fake lawyers and tout mafia working in courts. Cases will be registered against all the touts in Rawalpindi court and they will be sent to jail, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2023.
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