4-member panel to review list of govt lawyers: UP govt to HC

The Uttar Pradesh government today informed the Allahabad High Court that it has constituted a four-member committee to review the list of government lawyers issued on July 7.
The committee with the advocate general as its chairman will have three principal secretaries -- home, law and to the chief minister -- as its other members.
In view of this, the state government sought more time to complete the task of review.
The Lucknow bench hence set September 5 as the next date allowing time to the government to review and issue the list thereafter.
A bench of justices Vikram Nath and B S Tripathi passed the order on a PIL filed by advocate Mahendra Singh Pawar.

Hearing the PIL, the bench had on July 21 declared that the list was illegal and not sustainable in the eyes of law.
On insistence of the government that it was reviewing the list on its own, the bench had granted it time till August 8, but on that date further time was sought.
Accordingly, when the matter came up before the bench today, advocate general Raghvendra Singh and Chief Standing Counsel Ramesh Pandey sought more time, informing the court that the committee was constituted.