Harendra Narayan Chaki vs Secretary, Bar Association on 27 November, 1928
153 that it is a reasonable and legitimate inference of fact that if a man is shown to spend the greater portion of his working hours in canvassing and introducing clients to members of the profession, he is not rendering gratuitous service such as a casual friend or acquaintance may do. The learned Judges in Ugan Prasad Pandey v. Emperor's case A.I.R. 1927 Pat. 282 also did mot lose sight of this principle and ob- served... while remanding the case...to the Court below that there might be evidence on the record showing that remuneration moved from legal practitioners, or giving rise to a reasonable inference that it so moved. It is ordinarily difficult for the prosecution by evidence of the legal practitioners to prove moving of remuneration from them and in order to facilitate the proof of such conduct on the part of the person accused the legislature thought it fit to amend Section 36 by making evidence of a general repute admissible against the person accused. There can be no doubt that the Courts below were within their rights to draw legitimate inference from the facts before them as to the probability of the petitioner receiving remuneration from legal practitioners and this is in accordance with the definition of 'proved' in the Evidence Act.