'No Record Of His Engagement By Law Ministry': Allahabad HC On Lawyer's Plea For ₹1 Crore Legal Fees For 'Saving' Ex-CJI From 'Insult'

Dismissing a lawyer's plea seeking a direction to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice to pay him Rs. 1 crore legal fees for filing cases to save the then Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra, from "humiliation, insult, torture, and removal”, the Allahabad High Court observed in its order that there is nothing on record to indicate that the Ministry had ever engaged him for filing the cases in question. In light of this communication, the Court dismissed the plea as it observed thus: “There is nothing on record to indicate that the Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of Legal Affairs, Government of India had ever engaged the petitioner for filing the six cases, referred in the pleadings, therefore, in view of the reasons given in the communication dated 26.7.2024, we find absolutely no reason to grant the reliefs prayed for herein. Before the Court, he argued that it was impermissible for the Union Law Ministry to reject the 'reference' sent to it by the Hon'ble President of India. Additionally, he submitted before the division bench that he had filed another petition against the four Supreme Court judges who held a press conference in January 2018, criticizing the then CJI.