The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Haryana Government and all law officers in the office of Advocate General, Haryana, in a case pertaining to selection of law officers without any rule and without inviting any application.
Pardeep Kumar Rapria, has alleged that despite having experience of serving Central Government organisations the government had not selected him, but selected such lawyers with no experience of appearance before the HC.
Interestingly, as per a Right to Information reply in this connection, the government selected the Law Officers without receiving any application from them.
During the argument, the petitioner made submission that Law officer should be law-knowing person, and not political leader-knowing person. Law officer post is not a political post; it is a public post with greater responsibility in the administration of justice. The petitioner also submitted that the law officers conduct cases on behalf of the State and not at the instance of the ruling party or whichever party comes to power.
