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NEW DELHI: Super-rich lawyers of the Supreme Court, who command respect and money in equal measure, appear to be reluctant to donate even a fraction of their daily earnings to help the SC Bar Association‘s initiative to give grant of Rs 20,000 to advocates who are facing financial hardship due to drastic reduction in litigation during coronavirus-triggered lockdown.
On a rough estimate, there will be at least a dozen senior and noted lawyers whose daily earnings used to touch Rs one crore prior to the lockdown. It is also common knowledge that there are at least 100-odd advocates, practising in SC, whose pre-lockdown monthly income exceeded Rs one crore.
But when the SCBA, through its president Dushyant Dave, acting secretary Rohit Pandey and treasurer Meenesh Dubey, sought donations from its well-to-do members to create a distress fund