Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been appointed the Attorney General of India. President Droupadi Murmu issued the notification of his appointment. Ramani will take over as the country’s top legal officer on October 1. Former Law Commission member, Mr Venkataramani was most recently in the news after being appointed the... The post appeared first on .

Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been appointed the Attorney General of India. President Droupadi Murmu issued the notification of his appointment. Ramani will take over as the country’s top legal officer on October 1. Former Law Commission member, Mr Venkataramani was most recently in the news after being appointed the... The post appeared first on .

Chennai Apr 20 PTI The Madras High Court has directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to initiate inquiry against four advocates in Hosur who allegedly made fake claims before the local Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal A status report filed before the court pointed out the culpability of the four advocates Hence there shall be directions issued to the Bar Council to immediately initiate inquiry against advocates Manohar Reddy his wife Bharathi also a lawyer A K Selvi and M Sankar and take immediate action in accordance with the relevant Act and Rules said Justice N Anand Venkatesh The judge was passing further interim orders on the writ petitions from the Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company and New India Assurance Company which brought to the notice of the judge about the fake claims and manipulation of medical bills based on which compensations are decided on April 18 Earlier advocate Vijaya Raghavan who was assisting the court submitted that apart from Cholamandalam Insurance company seven other insurance companies had identified various cases that had been filed across Tamil Nadu by using fake bills This issue also might be handed over to the Special Investigation Team SIT constituted by the court he added The insurance companies concerned shall lodge independent complaints before the jurisdictional police stations and on receipt of the same FIRs shall be registered and immediately transferred to the file of the SIT On such transfer the Additional Director General of Police Economic Offence Wing shall assign the task of investigation to a Special Investigation Officer who shall be given all the powers to probe the case The investigation shall be commenced at the earliest and the final report shall be filed as expeditiously as possible the judge said It was also brought to the notice of the judge that some of the documents that were filed before the Motor Accident Tribunals in 82 MCOP cases were missing and were not traceable Once the documents were filed before the court it became the property of the court and there was a specific procedure contemplated under the Civil Procedure Code and the Civil Rules of Practice wherever the parties were seeking return of original documents Without resorting to this procedure the documents filed before the court could never be handed over to the party or to the advocate Therefore in all cases where documents are missing the concerned court shall immediately start an enquiry and ensure that the documents that were filed along with the MCOP are kept intact and it is not returned back either to the parties or to their counsel the judge added PTI COR HDA HDA