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India hopes to shake out fake lawyers in early 2016 verification plan
Only a fortnight after it was estimated that 30 per cent of Indian lawyers are fake, it has emerged that there is no reliable data and that it will take at least six months to set up and run a verification process.
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Manan Kumar Mishra, chair of the Bar Council of India (BCI), said two weeks ago that approximately 30 per cent of lawyers in India are ‘fake’, hold ‘fraudulent degrees’ or are ‘non-practising’ but still on the rolls. However, the Press Information Bureau of the Indian government has now said that the BCI told the government otherwise. More precisely, 'the number of fake lawyers cannot be exactly ascertained by now'.
Verification process
Exact numbers should be established in early 2016. The Bureau said that 'the entire verification process will be completed and fake lawyers will be identified' in a timescale of six or seven months. Sources: Legally Yours; Legally India
