Bar Council of Delhi will hear a complaint seeking disciplinary action against Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti on Monday, council secretary Murari Tiwari said on Friday.
"We will on January 20 discuss the complaint regarding disciplinary action against Bharti in a bar council meeting," he said.
Bar Council of Delhi is an autonomous statutory body that has the power to take action against lawyers enrolled in Delhi High Court.
Bharatiya Janata Party Delhi unit chief Vijay Goel on Thursday filed a complaint before the council seeking action against Bharti.
Goel complained that in August 2013, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court held Bharti's conduct as not only highly objectionable, unethical but also amounting to tampering of evidence, after he, as a defence lawyer in a corruption case, contacted a prosecution witness and attempted to bring on record an audio-recording of a conversation before the court.
The case relates to Pawan Kumar, a bank employee, prosecuted by the CBI in three separate cases for his alleged acts of omission and commission while employed with the State Bank of Mysore since 2006.
Goel said instead of accepting his mistake, Bharti tried to justify his conduct by terming the court judgment erroneous.
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