Delhi High Court refuses to stay SCBA decision suspending secretary Ashok Arora

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) resolution suspending its secretary Ashok Arora from the post. 

Justice Mukta Gupta, while pronouncing the order, said ‘no prima facie case is made out’.

The interim order was passed on Arora’s suit challenging his suspension on the ground that his removal by the Executive Committee of SCBA violated principles of natural justice. 

The SCBA had earlier told the court that principles of natural justice were followed before suspending Arora from the post.

It claimed that there was an attempt to hijack the functioning of the association after which the need to suspend Arora arose. 

The Executive Committee of the SCBA had passed a resolution on May 8, suspending Arora from the post of secretary with immediate effect in a meeting held through the online conference.

The suspension came a day after Arora had called an emergent general meeting of the lawyers’ body on May 11 to deliberate on the agenda for removing senior advocate Dushyant Dave from the post of SCBA President. 

The committee had also cancelled the proposed EGM and decided to set up a three-member panel to look into the allegations against Arora.