{"id":1015698,"date":"2026-06-19T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015698"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:52:23","slug":"sc-issues-notices-to-centre-bci-on-pil-seeking-aadhaar-like-verification-mechanism-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/sc-issues-notices-to-centre-bci-on-pil-seeking-aadhaar-like-verification-mechanism-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"SC issues notices to Centre, BCI on PIL seeking Aadhaar-like verification mechanism for lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, the Bar Council of India, state bar councils and the UGC on a PIL seeking a national advocate verification mechanism to weed out fake lawyers and to put in place a social media code of conduct for them. <\/p>\n<p>Petitioner Bar Association of India sought establishment of a National Digital Registry for the Legal Profession of India (NDRLP), a centralised, technology-driven Aadhaar-like database assigning each advocate a unique identifier linked to verified qualifications, enrolment status and disciplinary records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, the Bar Council of India, state bar councils and the UGC on a PIL seeking a national advocate verification mechanism to weed out fake lawyers and to put in place a social media code of conduct for them. Petitioner Bar Association of India sought establishment of a National Digital Registry for the Legal Profession of India (NDRLP), a centralised, technology-driven Aadhaar-like database assigning each advocate a unique identifier linked to verified qualifications, enrolment status and disciplinary records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015722,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015698\/revisions\/1015722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}