This story is from November 7, 2019

Patna high court administration seeks revision of Justice Rakesh Kumar’s order

The Patna high court administration has filed a civil revision petition against Justice Rakesh Kumar’s order for a CBI probe into the alleged ‘illegalities’ in stamp reporting section of the high court. The matter came up for hearing before the division bench of Justices Dinesh Kumar Singh and Anjani Kumar Sharan on Wednesday.
Patna high court administration seeks revision of Justice Rakesh Kumar’s order
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PATNA: The Patna high court administration has filed a civil revision petition against Justice Rakesh Kumar’s order for a CBI probe into the alleged ‘illegalities’ in stamp reporting section of the high court. The matter came up for hearing before the division bench of Justices Dinesh Kumar Singh and Anjani Kumar Sharan on Wednesday.
The coordination committee of all the three lawyers’ associations of the Patna high court has also filed a writ petition seeking revision or recall of Justice Rakesh’s order on October 24 this year.
The division bench on Wednesday turned the lawyers’ writ petition into an interlocutory application (IA) to be heard on Friday along with the revision petition filed by the registrar general of the Patna high court on Tuesday.
On August 28, Justice Rakesh had also ordered for CBI inquiry into the allegations of rampant corruption in lower judiciary and judicial probe into conditions leading to granting of bail to scam accused retired IAS officer KP Ramaiah. That order was nixed next day after hearing by a special 11-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi.
Justice Kumar, while hearing a writ petition by one Sahdev Sah, had ordered for a CBI inquiry and giving liberty to the investigation agency to lodge an FIR as how the high court’s stamp reporting section was putting certain cases for hearing before benches hurriedly despite apparent visible defects in them and why several cases were delayed for listing. “In such a situation, an inference can be drawn that something is going wrong in the stamp reporting section, which is not being controlled by higher officials of this court,” Justice Kumar had remarked.
The division bench asked the lawyers’ coordination committee chairman Yogesh Chandra Verma about the resolution passed by them for filing the writ petition. However, Purushottam Das, who is also the Advocates’ Association vice-president, submitted that no such resolution had been passed. The coordination committee will have to bring on record the resolution passed by it.
Both CJ Sahi and Justice Kumar have been transferred through a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice on October 30.
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