Hey Dear Preeti.
Aashish here again.
Dear please refer to my previous post(if u have missed it). Im an Article in Bansilal Shah and Co. One of my friends named Aditya Mundhra, an article in Mumbai (i wont disclose his firms name)had the same problem, his firm had 6 partners and 23 articles out of which 18 were dummy articles and the out of the rest only 3 were regular (including my friend).
He was badly mistreated by his mentor, insulted he was made to bunk classes(every suffers from this) heavily overburdened with work, owing to which he underwent depression and Trauma, so he asked his bboss for a termination but his request went in vain. SO he took resort to the legal way, got his form 112 and the attence time sheet duly signed and stamped by his principle submitted the same on 21st February 2009, got the verification by 24th and on 26 he lodged a for 120 with the Board of Members. Then his boss was summoned for the same(he didnt complaint all the partners only his mentor was involved). On 20th March the hearing was decided, his mentor (I will not disclose the name) tried to make 4 cases of Professional misconduct, Personal reputation tamper etc etc against Aditya, but at last it was His Higness. CA. Uttam Prakash Agarwal(Mai-Baap of ICAI) who cameto the rescue of my friend and his mentor was barred from practice for 3 years, he was also barred from keeping artles for life also his membership was reviked for 2 years and Mr. Aditya got terminated with his 8 months of articles(actually he had done 9 months) being counted there on and all the other articles who were dummy were co-incidently inolved in more than one professional course so even they were barred from any involvement with the ICAI(2 of them were final students (who were dummy right from their PEII) now Mr. Aditya is happily working as my collegue and even though he destroyed the carrer of 5 people (4articles and his mentor) but i dont think so he should repent on it.
Hope u find it of help and might be useful for u r future course of Action
Regards,
Love and Luck.
Mr. Aashish DInanath Tripathi a.ka. A.T.
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