30 per cent of lawyers in India are fake, Bar Council chief says

India's Economic Times reports... http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/30-per-cent-of-lawyers-in-india-are-fake-bar-council-chief-says/articleshow/48222233.cms   CHENNAI: In a shocking revelation, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has said 30 per cent of all lawyers in India are fake, holding fraudulent law degrees. Speaking at Lawyers Meet-2015, organised by BCI in Chennai on Saturday, Mishra said the council, which is statutorily empowered to discipline errant lawyers and take action against them, was in the process of weeding them out. In BCI's estimation, about 20 per cent of lawyers were practising in courts without v .. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/48222233.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst