Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 249 · Decided 29 August 1961
Devata Prasad Singh Chaudhuri and Others v. The Honble the Chief Justice and Judges of the Patna High Court
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 249 · [1962] 3 S.C.R. 305
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 117/1958
- Decided
- 29 August 1961
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 305 DEVATA PRASAD SINGH CHAUDHURI AND OTHERS v. THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND JUDGES OF THE PATNA HIGH COURT (B. ·P. SINHA, c. J., s. K. DAS, A. K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR and J. R. MUDHOLKAR, JJ.) Mukhmr-Right to practise in Civil Court-Legal Practitioners Act, Mukhtar to "practise" in any Civil Court, and s. 11 thereof empowers the High Court to make rules declaring what shall be deemed to be the "functions, powers and duties" of Mukhtars practising in the subordinate Courts. Rule 2 framed under s. 11 lays down that a Mukhtar
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