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SC seeks reply on fake advocates, Cockroach Janta Party probe
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre, the Bar Council of India and the CBI, seeking their responses on a plea for a probe into fake advocates, fraudulent law…
The Story in Brief
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre, the Bar Council of India and the CBI, seeking their responses on a plea for a probe into fake advocates, fraudulent law degrees, and persons linked to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana heard advocate Raja Choudhary's petition. The CJP emerged after Chief Justice Kant's remark during a May 15 hearing on fake advocates. The plea also alleges commercial exploitation of oral courtroom observations, with selectively edited clips turned into memes and monetised on social media.
The Indian Opinion
The Cockroach Janta Party was born from a judge's stray courtroom remark, but this plea risks turning satire into a crime. Free speech includes irreverent memes; the dividing line is whether they are monetised to deliberately undermine institutional dignity. The court must separate genuine institutional harm from democratic dissent. The real test: how many fake advocates the BCI actually identifies once asked to investigate.
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