As part of efforts to uphold professionalism and credibility within the legal profession, the Bar Council of India recently revealed that it had removed 107 fake lawyers from the rolls in Delhi. The secretary of BCI, Srimanto Sen, who has initiated this move has stated that this is the second phase of a broader campaign by the council aimed at cleansing the profession from unregistered practitioners. With the lawyers playing such an influential role in upholding justice and the rule of law, the BCI is being forced to take on such measures to ensure the field remains pure.The term fake lawyers refers to lawyers that are practicing law without possessing proper qualifications or enrollment in BCI, which is considered the basic requirement for acting as a lawyer in India. The legal profession has always been regulated in order to ensure that only a person who fulfills and surpasses stringent educational requirements can be allowed to practice within India. Enrolment in BCI requires proof of having graduated in law from any recognized institution. One must then undergo enrolment in the respective state bar councils. Enrolled lawyers will get an enrolment number which itself is a sort of proof of authorization. The council, BCI, to remove those un-qualified professionals from practicing the law shows that it cannot allow unscrupulous activity to enter its council, and permit unscrupulous activities by any sort of law professional. The council conducts regular audits and inspections to verify the credentials of individuals listed on its roll, and it usually finds discrepancies, which are then corrected. The action taken recently in Delhi is part of a greater exercise by the BCI to cleanse the system with an eye to restoring public confidence in the legal fraternity and ensuring that clients are represented by genuinely qualified professionals. Removing unqualified practitioners from the rolls of legal practice may be essential in keeping the judiciary's prestige alive. Without doubt, people who are not qualified make the profession cheap and sometimes confuse and mislead the litigants as they do not observe the level of professional ethics the law practitioners are expected to adhere to, Srimanto Sen said. These "pseudo" lawyers do not only diminish public confidence in the judiciary but also harm the professions of some truly qualified lawyers who have spent a great deal of time, money, and hard work in becoming qualified lawyers. This move by BCI is a wake-up call to the other areas of India as well that similar issues are going on there. The council needs to continue vigilance and ensure similar verifications in the other states too, by which it would be quite hopeful that this would become a deterrent to the people seeking to exploit the profession on fraudulent grounds. Further, it is considering some measures about strengthening the verification process against new entrants and so that it is hard for fraudulent people to penetrate into this legal system.