Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
A lawyer appointed to represent a pauper shall not take or agree to take, or seek to obtain from him, any fee, profit or reward for the conduct of his case in the Court. The Court shall, however, have power to award costs against the adverse party or out of the property recovered in the suit and to direct the payment thereof to the lawyer appointed to represent the pauper. If such lawyer accepts any fee, profit or reward except as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of misconduct.