Days after suspension, advocate Sarode gets relief from Bar Council of India, says truth has won

The committee said after the perusal of the record, it feels that there is a prima facie case made out and balance of convenience lies in favour of the appellant. ”Some documents filed before the State Bar Council by the appellant whether the professional misconduct attract or not has to be examined properly by the committee. Therefore, at this juncture, the operation of the impugned order is stayed,” the committee said.

Reacting to the stay, Sarode said, ”The Bar Council has clearly said prima facie there is no professional misconduct. There is no proper or specific definition of misconduct. So, in the changing time, there is a need to properly define what is professional misconduct so that there is no whimsical interpretation of it.”

The Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa had suspended Sarode’s licence citing professional misconduct by making statements causing distrust and disrespect towards judiciary during his speech at a Shiv Sena event in Mumbai last year. His licence was suspended for a period of three months from the date of receipt of the order and a fine of Rs 25,000 was also imposed on him. Sarode had received the copy of the order in the first week of this month.

Stating that truth has triumphed, Sarode said, “The victory of truth has to begin someday.”

Sarode had then said, ”I stand by my comment made during the Shiv Sena programme. I would repeat it again and again. It is not wrong to speak the truth. I will not tender an apology. I said nothing unconstitutional or derogatory.”

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