Bar Council of India has brought a law to weed out fake lawyers in the country. Will the Press Council of India bring a law to weed out fake newspapers and fake journalists? Social Welfare Journalists and the Press.

September 26, 2024 • Makkal Adhikaram

Emphasising the importance of the law of the country, the Bar Council of India has recommended biometric inspection notifications for crime background study for law students. The Bar Council of India (BCI) has ordered immediate implementation of mandatory notifications regarding simultaneous degrees, placement status and admission to attendance at all Legal Education Centres (CLEs) for immediate implementation of criminal background check system.

In a circular sent to vice-chancellors, registrars of universities and law education centres offering law degrees, CLEs have been asked to incorporate biometric reception registration systems and install CCTV cameras in classrooms to ensure transparency and attendance and conduct. It requires law education students to maintain a clean criminal record and declare the FIR criminal sentence, or acquittal before the final verdict. Failure to disclose information such as marks and degrees will result in strict disciplinary action, including withholding of the final mark sheet and degree.

Further, the Act has been enacted to de-recognise the law colleges BCI which do not implement these Acts and impose statutory penalties on the needy educational institutions. Also, if a student’s graduation, social work, criminal case etc. are found in two places at the same time, their degree will be withheld.

Also, every student should have obtained NOC (No Objection Certificate) from the Bar Council of India before obtaining a law degree degree. If not, proof of compliance with the attendance regulations must also be provided as per Rule 12 of the Degree Legal Education Rules. The Bar Council of India has said that all such employment cases should be reported to the BCI.

Further, if the Bar Council of India fails to obtain an NOC, the student will not be allowed to register as an advocate in any state. Therefore, it is very welcome that the Bar Council of India has brought these laws emphasizing the importance of the law of the land.

This is because 75% of today’s lawyers are involved in political parties, caste organizations and religious organizations and are involved in criminal activities in the country. Apart from this, for about 20 years, those who have bought this degree by paying Rs 50,000 / – in law colleges like Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been cheating the society by wearing coats as lawyers and brokers. They also register with this Bar Council and register themselves as advocates.

The reason for this is the mistake of the Law College today that legal education has been commercialized in the country and these degrees have been given without knowing its merit and importance. Do they all deserve it? If you analyze it, not even one percent of it will pass. This is a rough estimate that there will be more than 10 lakh such lawyers in Tamil Nadu. This is a random survey that cheats the society by claiming to be a lawyer without knowing the law.

Today, they are holding positions in political parties and looking after party work. On the one hand, they are deceiving the society that there is a caste association and a caste political party behind them. Are they lawyers? Or do they belong to a caste political party? Or do they belong to political parties? On what basis will they work?

Whether it is a case or a case of social importance, will they file a case in the court through them and when they argue, will they argue as a lawyer i.e. impartially? Or will they advocate for those caste parties? Or will they advocate for political parties? Why does this pose this question here? If most of the cases are in the form of political party cases in the country today, the same situation is the case with those who work as reporters for the political party newspapers, will they give news for that party? Or will they give neutrally? They too enjoy government privileges and publicity as journalists.

There is a misconception among political parties that no matter how many social crimes or legal frauds his party indulges in behind him, political party lawyers are there to protect him. Not only that, from today’s political parties to ministers, corruption cases and criminal cases in Tamil Nadu, all these political parties have formed a team called lawyers and are using such lawyers in it.

Not all of them can be said to have paid 50,000 for the title. There are those who have been educated. However, they have secured positions in the parties and are working as lawyers for that party. All of them are their party MLAs, MPs, ministers and local body representatives who are indirectly negotiating corruption cases in the courts. This is where the Goddess of Justice bows her head.

So many ministers, MLAs and local body representatives who should have been punished under the law escape. Just like the Bar Council of India has brought biometric system for law students and disciplined them, it should also regulate them. The judge’s decision should be transparent. It should not cooperate with the judgment to allow the corrupt who are in the loophole of the law to escape. That is why criminals are on the rise in politics in the country.

Political parties should be a change for society, but a political party has been their progress. Today, about 75% of political parties are people with criminal backgrounds in the society. In the name of serving the people, political parties are in the business of looting. IAS and IPS officers are assisting in this.

Even the privileges and advertisements of journalism which should be given in a fair manner are being aided by such wrong politicians and IAS officers. So politics should be outside the court. Politics should be outside journalism. Once all these things come in, corruption cannot be eradicated in the country. If corruption is to be rooted out, there has to be a political space in the judiciary and the press.

Here, journalism has made a distinction between rich and poor. Money is not equal to knowledge, talent or merit. But because politics is within, it has created inequality. Knowledge, skills and education are sold by fake lawyers, fake journalists.

Moreover, corporate journalists are the pinnacle of political dominance in Tamil Nadu and are in charge of the Journalists Welfare Board. This is against the freedom of the press. Besides, the neutrality of the press is meaningless. It is not the job of journalists and the press to prop up the politician and the corrupt here. This is a fake metaphor for journalists.

Today’s Tamil Nadu Press Welfare Board is buying undeserving newspapers and advertisements. Undeserving journalists are enjoying that privilege and publicity. All this needs to be weeded out. Just as the Bar Council of India weeds out the judiciary, fake journalists and fake newspapers should be weeded out. These fakes are deceiving journalism in the context of politics, in the rule of circulation law.

These offers, advertisements should not be the recommendation of political parties or rulers. What is a neutral magazine for social good? The Press Council of India should regulate this to decide. Even the political party newspapers are wasting the tax money of crores of people in the country using the rule of circulation. But denying concessions and advertisements to newspapers for social good should be brought to book and punished.

Just as the Bar Council of India regulates the law education students, the Press Council of India should regulate journalism so that the corrupt and political criminals can be expelled from politics in the country. These fake politicians, corrupt people, fake newspapers, fake journalists and fake lawyers are the main reason.