HC summons AG on posting of law officers

TNN | Updated: Nov 17, 2017, 10:34 IST

MADURAI: The state's advocate general has been directed to appear before the Madras high court Madurai bench in a case that alleged that the government is planning to appoint people who have not been recommended by the principal district and sessions judge of Kanyakumari as law officers — government pleader and public prosecutor — in the district,.

When the petition filed by advocate M Ashok Padma Raj of Kanyakumari came up for hearing before justice R Mahadevan, the judge directed the government to ask the advocate general to come to court on November 22.

The petitioner alleged that the government is going to appoint people whose candidature was neither recommended by the district judge of Kanyakumari nor empanelled by the district collector. He further said that he sent representations to the state's chief secretary and home secretary asking them to appoint law officers on merit and not for extraneous considerations, but the officials turned a Nelson's eye to his request.