law: Children Act, 1960
  28. Persons who may be present before competent authority
  (1) Save as provided
  
  in this Act, no person shall be present at any sitting of a competent
  
  authority, except-
  (a) any officer of the
  
  competent authority, or
  (b) the parties to the inquiry before the
  
  competent authority, the parent or guardian of the child and other persons
  
  directly concerned in the inquiry including police officers 3[and
  
  legal practitioners], and
  (c) such other persons
  
  as the competent authority may permit to be present.
  (2) Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (1), if at any stage during an inquiry, a
  
  competent authority considers it to be expedient in the interest of the child
  
  or on grounds of decency or morality that any person including the police
  
  officers, legal practitioners, the parent, guardian or the child himself should
  
  withdraw, the competent authority may give such direction, and if any person
  
  refuses to comply with such direction, the competent authority may have him
  
  removed and may, for this purpose, cause to be used such force as may be necessary.
   13  [(3) No legal
  
  practitioner shall be entitled to appear before a Board in any case or
  
  proceeding before it, except with the special permission of that Board.]