The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry’s disciplinary committee refused to revoke or stay its order suspending 10 lawyers for professional misconduct, citing lack of jurisdiction, reported the Business Standard.

The committee comprising of chairman R Arunachalam and members K K S Ramachandran and R Ajay Kumar commented that the remedy for the lawyers is to approach Bar Council of India and that “the duty cast on the disciplinary committee is to inquire and dispose of only the suo motu complaint initiated as per the resolutions passed by the Bar council”

The state bar council has to date suspended at least 45 lawyers for alleged professional misconduct. 35 out of these were suspended by November 2015.

The present batch of 10 suspended lawyers submitted in their petition that the continued suspension is adversely affecting their practice and requested stay of prohibitory orders which have been in force for almost two months now.