India, April 28 -- The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) has suspended former Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) president Rajiv Khosla, along with nine other lawyers, for allegedly misbehaving with the returning officer (RO) and former judge Talwant Singh, as well as members of the Election Committee (EC) and staff engaged in vote counting during the February BCD elections, and for preventing them from performing their duties.

The decision was taken by BCD secretary Col Arun Sharma on Sunday after EC submitted minutes of a meeting regarding an incident that transpired on Saturday at the S-Block of the Delhi High Court. The lawyers were accused of forcibly stopping the RO and other officials from entering the counting venue and using abus...