While expressing shock at how the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council found a way to circumvent last year's judgment restricting the lawyers' enrolment fees to Rs. 750, the Supreme Court issued notice and directed the State Bar Council to file an affidavit explaining the same.

A petition was filed before the Supreme Court claiming that the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council is charging Rs. 2500 for appearing in the oral interviews for the purpose of enrollment. The Court noted that this was a way to circumvent the Supreme Court's judgment which capped enrollment fees.

Remarking that the State Bar Council continue to flout the Supreme Court's Gaurav Kumar v. Union of India (2024) judgment, a bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice PB Varale also directed the Bar Council of India to look int

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