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State’s new Advisory Panel head: HC disposes of fresh plea against Raghav Chadha’s appointment
Punjab and Haryana high court has disposed of a plea, challenging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s appointment as chairman state’s advisory panel.
The Punjab and Haryana high court has disposed of a plea challenging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s appointment as chairman state’s advisory panel. The order was passed by chief justice RS Jha and justice Arun Palli on the plea of an advocate, Jagmohan Singh Bhatti, after state’s counsel told the bench that all documents related to appointment have been supplied to the petitioner lawyer.
The lawyer had filed an application in an earlier plea alleging that state had not acted on the high court order.
Initially, Bhatti had filed a plea in July in which he had challenged the appointment terming it “illegal,” “arbitrary”, and “in exercise of non-existent laws of the state and central governments” and had sought quashing of the same. It was disposed of on August 1 after assurance from the state that representation filed by the state would be dealt with. However, the lawyer had again moved high court on October 14 alleging that he was not supplied with all the requisite documents. This is the application, which has been disposed of now.
The government in July had announced constitution of a temporary panel headed by Chadha, which would “advice on matters of public importance pertaining to public administration” as and when asked for. Bhatti’s argument was that the decision was in violation of the constitutional mandate and amounts to a “parallel government within the government”, which was not permissible.
