Bar Council
The council’s notice was prompted by a representation made to it by an advocate, Ashwini Kumar Upadhayay, who raised the issue saying politicians who are advocates (and vice versa) are engaging in two professions, legislators and advocates,- which is not permissible under BCI rules.
Upadhayay has cited judgements of the Supreme Court and BCI rules in his representation.
“Members of Executive and Judiciary are not permitted to practice as an advocate, but people’s representatives, who are also public servants, are allowed (to do so), which is against the spirit of Article 14-15 of the Constitution. “
Building his case, Upadhyay has cited a Supreme Court observation that the “legal profession requires full time attention and would not countenance an advocate riding two horses or more at In response to an authenticaa time”. tion request from a ‘Local AUA,’ Apart from being in violation UIDAI would return a unique of BCI rules, advocates who douidentity token--a 72-character ble as lawmakers also run the alpha-numeric string that will risk of conflict of interest, Upadonly work in the ‘Local AUA’S’ hayay added. system. Bar Council of India Chair
Experts welcomed the changes man, Manan Mishra said: “We initiated by UIDAI to enhance have hosted the notice on the security and protect privacy. BCI website and will start send
“If someone authenticates you, ing out individual notices from they will only have the virtual tomorrow. MPS like Kapil Sibal, number, and even if their dataSalman Khurshid, Abhishek base gets hacked all that gets lost Manu Singhivi, Meenakshi is the virtual ID number which Lekhi, Bhupendra Yadav, KTS doesn’t put you at risk because Tulsi, Satish Mishra and P Chiyou can always change this numdambaram will be served notices ber,” said Rahul Matthan, partby emails or indiviually. “ner at law firm Trilegal and a Referring to one of his newsMint columnist. paper articles on the subject,
“Aadhaar is here to stay! senior advocate Abhishek Manu Happy that the @UIDAI has Singhivi said, “The proponents introduced virtual ID and limited of this idea have clearly not KYC in the spirit of continuous thought out this issue fully or innovation to enhance privacy deeply. Across the board, any and security,” former UIDAI number of people juggle their chairman Nandan Nilekani own profession with a sense of tweeted on Wednesday. civic duty, public service, social
UIDAI will be releasing neces- work or politics. To add or