The Supreme Court has held that an advocate who merely attests or identifies the deponent of an affidavit does not thereby assume responsibility for the truth or correctness of the statements made in it.

Dismissing a special leave petition arising out of disciplinary proceedings against Mumbai-based advocate Geeta Ramanugrah Shastri, the Court upheld a Bombay High Court order quashing the complaint and termed the allegations against her as “absurd, untenable and malicious.”

Background Of The Case

The complaint was filed by Bansidhar Annaji Bhakad, a former lecturer who later became an advocate, in connection with a long-standing dispute with Ismail Yusuf Junior College. Bhakad alleged that Shastri, by identifying the deponent of an affidavit filed with a chamber summons in his civil sui

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