Unveiling Fraud, Regulatory Flaws, Systemic Failures and a Demand for Accountability
This website – Weed out FAKE Advocates – chronicles systemic issues in procedure established by law in addressing the problem of fake advocates. This is done through documenting the singular experience of struggle of holding to account a bunch of fake advocates practicing in Karnataka.
For a summary, a context to what gave rise to this fight against fake advocates, do start off by reading our story.
I wrote a letter to Mr.Justice Deepak Gupta, Chairman of the High Power Committee set up by the Supreme Court of India to monitor verification of advocates. This is a good starting point to understand what it means to be dragged into a fight with fake advocates. Here is the letter:
Disclaimer!
Weed Out FAKE Advocates is anti – FAKE Advocates and NOT anti – Advocates.
Complaints
An account of how regulatory mechanisms and systemic flaws led to the failure of bringing to account the following fake advocates:
Fake Advocates impact the administration of justice.
Why is it important to weed out fake advocates? How did G.A.Srikante Gowda, M.Amaranatha and their cohort impact adversely on the administration of justice? Their throttling of our access to justice takes on many forms. Read on.
Access to Justice: Article 21
Weed out fake advocates to ensure that access to justice is not denied. What are the myriad ways in which access to justice can be denied? Read on.
How Does the Law Weed out Fake Advocates?
What does the Law say with regard to fake advocates? What does the Supreme Court of India say? Read about the exemplary stands that the High Courts of Kerala and Madras have taken. And the radical 266th Law Commission Report.
Why this Website ‘Weed out Fake Advocates’?
I strongly believe that there is an imminent threat to the life and liberty of me and my family. The refusal of Bar Council of India to act swiftly on a Revision Petition exacerbates the threat. Moreover the recently passed Karnataka Prohibition of Violence Against Advocates Bill, 2023 allows for a space wherein threats that have been consistently issued against us, over the past two years, will become real.
FAQs
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference—those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older—know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches