High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna High Court, Patna Through Its Secretary, Shri Kishore Pr v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.23550 of 2016 ====================================================== High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna High Court, Patna Through Its Secretary, Shri Kishore Prasad, Joint Registrar (judicial) - Cum - Secretary .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar & Ors .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Jitendra Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Rita Verma(APP) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE) 05-09-2016 Heard learned Counsel for the parties.

The present application, seeking modification of the order, dated 07.04.2015 aforementioned, is misconceived inasmuch as there is no direction to the Patna High Court Legal Services Committee to pay expenses of proceeding or the fee of amicus curiae. Because of the fact that the appointment of Amicus Curiae in Criminal Appeal (DB) Nos. 392 and 499 of 1993, was not under the Patna High Court Legal Services Committee, Patna, we do not find that the prayer, calling for modification of the order, dated 07.04.2015, passed in Criminal Appeal (DB) Nos. 392 and 499 of 1993, calls for any interference. It is made clear that the Patna High Court Legal Services Committee has no onus or duty to pay the fee of the amicus curiae in the Criminal Appeals aforementioned. In view of the above, this petition is dismissed. (I.A. Ansari, CJ) (Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J) sunil/- U