LUCKNOW, Jan. 25 -- Observing that advocates have a duty to discourage frivolous litigation and assist the courts with focused and legally substantiated submissions, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has dismissed a petition challenging the authority of the registrar of the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT), Lucknow, to issue notices in securitisation proceedings, holding that such powers are clearly vested in the registrar under the applicable procedural rules. "The learned Counsel should understand that although he represents his client before the Court, he is not a mere mouthpiece of his client. In case a client insists for filing a petition or advancing a submission which is frivolous, the Advocate should advise him not to do so and the Advocate should refrain from accepting such a frivolous brief," the court observed. Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the order on January 19 on a petition filed by one Dinesh Kumar Jindal questioning the validity of a notice dated November 11, 2025, issued by the registrar of the DRT, Lucknow in a 2025 securitisation application. The notice required the respondents to appear before the Registrar and show cause why the application filed under Section 17 of Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002, should not be allowed. The petitioner's counsel submitted that the registrar lacked jurisdiction to issue such a notice, arguing that the power to admit, hear and decide securitisation applications rested exclusively with the presiding officer of the DRT. The court noted, however, that by the time the petition came up before it on December 18, 2025, the securitisation application had already been listed before the presiding officer of the tribunal on December 1, 2025. As a result, the grievance regarding the matter being listed before the registrar had already been redressed. The court also observed that the petition failed to disclose any specific legal injury suffered by the petitioner due to the brief interval during which the matter remained before the registrar. HTC...