India, Oct. 13 -- The Bar Council of India (BCI) has dissolved the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD), after observing repeated delays in the verification of credentials of its members, impacting the efforts to weed out illegal lawyers practising in the city.

In an order passed on October 10, the principal secretary of BCI, Srimanto Sen, said that despite repeated extensions and advisories issued since August 2023, the state bar council has failed to meet the deadline for providing verified data and rectifying mismatches in data of lawyers.

As a result, a three-member committee is being formed instead to ensure accurate verification of lawyers' work and educational credentials. Subsequently, only verified advocates will be allowed to enrol in t...