State govt won’t file unnecessary petitions, AG assures high court

Advocate general (AG) Raghvendra Singh has assured the Allahabad high court that the state law department will not file unnecessary and frivolous petitions in future. On his statement, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court dismissed a petition which was termed as frivolous by the court earlier. The petition was filed by the state.

During the hearing on this petition, the court had also taken a serious note of ‘non -availability of competent state counsel’ among the government lawyers appointed recently by the Uttar Pradesh government.

It had directed the in-charge (officiating) legal remembrancer of the state to file an affidavit (reply), giving details in this regard by July 24.

A division bench of justice Sudhir Agarwal and justice Ravindra Nath Mishra-II passed the order on the said writ petition filed by the state in a service matter challenging the judgment of the state public services tribunal.

On July 24, the advocate general, who appeared for the state government (the petitioner), stated that there was no interim order in this matter and the judgment of the tribunal was already complied with.

He further stated that the law department had now assured that it will take adequate care and precaution in future so as to avoid filing of unnecessary and frivolous petitions and this petition may be dismissed “as not pressed”.

The court dismissed it accordingly.