Advocate Subhash Jha, appearing for Sadavarte, said that the order passed by a single-member bench of BCMG, implicitly held Sadavarte guilty of the offence.
Dr Milind Sathe, the Senior Advocate appearing for BCMG, informed the Court that the order of the single member was part of the prescribed procedure as per which the member gives a prime facie suggestion on whether or not the complaint is required to be heard by a 3-member disciplinary committee.
While the Court found no fault in the ‘filtering process’ of BCMG, it suggested that the single-member bench could perhaps limit his observations to the maintainability of the complaint instead of going into the merits of the complaint itself.
Source: Barandbench
