The SC called it misconduct for an advocate and a serious lapse for a judge, directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to frame disciplinary norms, and likened hallucinated case law to "the release of methyl isocyanate in the province of law and justice."
Curated from medianama.com · 3 July 2026 →
On 2 July 2026 a bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe set aside orders of the National Company Law Tribunal and its appellate tribunal in the Essel Infraprojects insolvency matter. Of the six judgments the tribunal had relied on, three do not exist and three real ones carried invented paragraphs or the wrong case title. The detail that makes this different from every lawyer-sanctioned case elsewhere on this page is in Jammu and Kashmir Bank's affidavit: counsel had cited none of the six. The tribunal had found them itself, and the appellate tribunal did not catch them either. The court's comparison is to Bhopal. It directed the Bar Council of India to frame disciplinary norms.
