Supreme Court Accepts Apology, Clears AoR in Misconduct Case After Split Verdict

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Advocate-on-Record P Soma Sundaram and another lawyer in a misconduct case, following a split verdict earlier.

A Bench led by CJI BR Gavai, with Justices K Vinod Chandran and Joymalya Bagchi, accepted the lawyers' apologies and declined to impose penalties.

Earlier, Justice Bela Trivedi had ordered a one-month suspension and ₹1 lakh cost, while Justice Satish Chandra Sharma dissented, favouring forgiveness. The three-judge bench sided with Sharma, holding that genuine errors with sincere apologies shouldn’t end legal careers. (N Easwaranathan v. State)