Advocate Sunil Verma is a non-executive director of Pragati Textiles Ltd. The company asks him to file…

Rule 48 allows an advocate to be a director if his duties are not executive, but that does not let him act for the company. Rule 9 says he should not act or plead where he is pecuniarily interested, and its illustration states: "He should not accept a brief from a company of which he is a Director." Rule 11's duty to accept briefs gives way to this specific bar.