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Sasaram ADJ, 3 HC lawyers & staff succumb to Covid-19

A young additional district judge and three lawyers of the Patna high court and one of its employees succumbed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Sasaram ADJ, 3 HC lawyers & staff succumb to Covid-19
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PATNA: A young additional district judge and three lawyers of the Patna high court and one of its employees succumbed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Additional district and sessions judge (ADJ) Piyush Kumar Srivastava, who was posted at Sasaram in Rohtas district, died on Friday. He was hardly 44 years’ old and had joined the Bihar Subordinate Judicial Service in October 2007.
Srivastava was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Sasaram for almost ten days.
He was the nephew of Justice (retd) Hemant Kumar Srivastava of the Patna high court.
Sources close to the ADJ said his family tried a lot to get him admitted to a hospital in Patna but could not do so due to non-availability of beds.
Srivastava is the third judicial officer of Bihar Subordinate Judicial Service to succumb to Covid-19 within 11 days.
Another judicial officer posted in Khagaria is also reported to be in serious condition and is presently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Patna.
Earlier, railway magistrate Manish Kumar posted at Kiul in Lakhisarai died during treatment at a private hospital in Patna on April 20. On April 26, additional chief judicial magistrate Amit Kumar posted at
Patna civil court also died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in Patna.
Meanwhile, former additional advocate general of state government and designated senior lawyer of Patna high court Shivaji Nath (75) also died in Patna on Friday morning. He was admitted in a private hospital after testing positive on April 10.
Nath’s son Ray Saurabh Nath said his father died around 6.20am after suffering cardiac arrest. “He was also the chairman of Patna chapter of Automobile Association of Eastern India,” he added.
Another Patna high court lawyer, Ravindra Griyage, succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday. He developed a severe breathing problem but could not be admitted in a hospital in time for treatment.
On Thursday morning, another high court lawyer cum legal reporter of a vernacular daily, Nirbhay Kumar Singh, died after battling for life on a ventilator support at AIIMS-Patna for almost a week.
Besides these lawyers, high court’s assistant section officer Saira Begum also passed away due to Covid-19 at AIIMS-Patna on Thursday evening. Saira is survived by her husband, a 21-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter. She is the sixth staff of the high court to die of Covid-19 within 13 days. Earlier, assistant registrar Gagan Mishra, deputy registrar Nasimul Hoda, section officer Rakesh Priyadarshi and assistant Mayank Singh and a female peon Praniya Devi of the high court had succumbed to Covid-19.
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