Public prosecutor gets prosecuted by accused

NEW DLEHI: Supreme Court Monday requested the Bombay HC main justness to expeditiously determine the petition filed by a peculiar nationalist authoritative for quashing an FIR lodged against him by the accused whose prosecution was being conducted by the lawyer.Appearing for advocator Shekhar Kakasaheb Jagtap, elder advocator Gaurav Agrawal told a seat of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran that the petitioner, was prosecuting the accused - erstwhile Mumbai constabulary commissioner Param Bir Singh and businessman Sanjay Punamiya - connected complaints filed by different businessman Sunder Agarwal.The elder advocator told SC though Jagtap has sought quashing of the FIR lodged against him by Punamiya, the HC judges person recused themselves from proceeding his petition.

Moreover, the lawsuit assigned to a justice present has been lying successful acold retention for the past 1 year, helium said.SC requested the Bombay HC CJ to retreat the lawsuit to a seat headed by him for an expeditious proceeding connected Jagtap's petition. It gave liberty to Jagtap to notation the substance for urgent proceeding earlier the CJ based connected the SC order.The allegation against Jagtap is that helium had forged letters appointing him arsenic peculiar nationalist authoritative successful cases against Param Bir Singh. Jagtap said Punamiya had filed respective different complaints against him earlier Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, which had rejected the allegations. He said constabulary mechanically filed the FIR without conducting a preliminary enquiry into veracity of the complaints against him contempt knowing that helium has been practicing for the past 23 years and has been empaneled arsenic counsel for Maharashtra govt.