Published on : 08 Nov 2025, 5:59 am 15 min read

In a landmark ruling on summons issued to advocates by investigating agencies, the Supreme Court chose not to frame binding safeguards to protect lawyers from such action.

Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan calls this a missed opportunity, arguing that the Court should have defined the limits of investigative power over the Bar.

Grounding his critique in the Constitution’s protection of liberty, he describes the judgment as one that recognised the malaise, but declined to cure it.

In this interview with Bar & Bench’s Debayan Roy, Sankaranarayanan speaks on the judgment’s silences, the need for peer review before summoning advocates and why the privilege of communication between lawyer and client must remain beyond the reac

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