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'Legal services can help show country's prowess'

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI July 4. The Union Law Minister, Jana Krishnamurthi, has identified legal services as a new sector after information technology to demonstrate India's super power status.

Talking to the Vice Chairman of the Bar Council of India, Adish C. Aggarwala, and a group of lawyers, who called on him on Wednesday, Mr. Krishnamurthi said that the world at large was looking towards India as a rising economic super power and legal services could help it show its prowess. He appealed to the lawyers to uphold the majesty and dignity of law, reminding them that faster and cheaper dispensation of justice was necessary for strengthening the democratic fabric. Mr. Aggarwala assured the Law Minister that lawyers in the country would fully cooperate in the Government's endeavour. He also disclosed that the BCI had permanently cancelled the enrolment of 25 lawyers, suspended 89 and reprimanded 31 for misconduct.

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