Rajasthan govt appoints Rajendra Prasad Gupta as Advocate General
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra approved the proposal put forth by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and issued necessary orders in this regard.
Taking a serious view of the concerns expressed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana over the manner in which final reports are being filed by the Prosecution in drug-related offences, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Amarinder Singh on Thursday directed the Advocate General (AG) to pursue the matter in right earnestness.
Acting on the M’s directives, AG Atul Nanda has written a demi-official letter to Director, Department of Prosecution and Litigation, asking him to call for a report from the various districts and ascertain the factual position on ground as regards this.
Describing it as an issue of “grave concern” the AG has also sought the comments and suggestions of the director, Vijay Singla, on the issue “so that the matter may be taken forward at the earliest, preferably within two weeks.”
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The letter is marked to the chief secretary Karan Avtar Singh and additional chief secretary (home) NS Kalsi, apart from Director General of Police (DGP) Suresh Arora and additional DGP, Special Task Force (Drugs), Harpreet Singh Sidhu.
The letter refers to yesterday’s incident when, while the CM was attending his hearing on Election Petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Daya Chaudhary had called upon the AG as well as the CM “to look into the manner in which final reports are being filed by the Prosecution in drug-related offences, more particularly without attaching the laboratory reports supporting the charges made against the accused.”
The Court was of the view that such reports are often not attached to/form part of the final report which is filed before it.
Soon after the issue was brought to his notice by the Court, the CM directed the AG to personally look into the matter and ensure that the system is streamlined to ensure that there are no such loopholes in the Prosecution’s case before the Court, particularly in drug-related matters.
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