Chennai: Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has been quoted as saying that 30% of lawyers in the country are fake, possessing ‘fraudulent’ law degrees or non-practising persons, and are degrading the profession.  

In addition he said that 20% of persons sporting lawyers robes do not have proper law degrees. “Thirty per cent of all lawyers are fake, who either hold fraudulent degrees or are non-practising persons and 20 per cent of those who sport lawyers robes do not have proper degrees,” he said addressing Lawyers Meet 2015 here last evening.