PRAFULLYA KUMAR MAHATO Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner in this article 226 petition dated November 16, 2011 is questioning the validity of the revised panel dated September 19, 2011 (at p. 38) sent by the Legal Remembrancer, West Bengal to the District Magistrate & Collector, Purulia. The revised panel was prepared for engaging lawyers therefrom for conducting civil and criminal cases on behalf of the State Government in the district of Purulia.

(2.) Relevant parts of the panel are quoted below:

(3.) Relying on the provisions of section 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the case stated in para 7 of the petition, counsel for the petitioner has submitted that nothing in the panel will show that the District Magistrate prepared it in consultation with the Sessions Judge, or that steps for its preparation were taken after vacancies occurred. According to him, the panel has been prepared in contravention of law.