FIRST LAW

Advocates Act, 1961 - Section 26 - Enrolment in the Bar Council - Government Service - Involvement in a Criminal Case - Subsequent acquittal cannot come to the rescue - Power on the Bar Council of India to remove the name of a person who entered on the Roll of Advocates by misrepresentation - Enrollment of the Appellant was cancelled - Order cancelling his enrolment as an advocate was confirmed by Apex Court - Appellant made another attempt for enrolment - Repeated attempts made by the Appellant later amount to an abuse of process. L. Nageswara Rao & M.R. Shah, JJ. Anand Kumar Sharma v. Bar Council of India , C.A. No. 294 of 2007 01-03-2019

Aadhaar - Whether the Aadhaar Project creates or has tendency to create surveillance state and is, thus, unconstitutional on this ground - Whether the Aadhaar Act violates right to privacy and is unconstitutional on this ground - Discussed. Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India, 2018 (12) Scale 1 W.P. (C) No. 494 of 2012 26-09-2018

Injunctions and stay orders should not be granted mechanically without realising the harm likely to be caused to opposite party.