The State Government has decided to place a senior officer having legal expertise at the Resident Commissioner’s office in New Delhi for the smooth management of Government cases in the Supreme Court, national tribunals and the Delhi High Court.
A working or retired senior officer of the Odisha legal Service or an officer in the rank of Additional Secretary would be inducted in the litigation Management System Cell of the Resident Commissioner’s office to look after the cases on behalf of the State Government.
Now, many cases of the State Government are pending in these courts. The primary duty of the officer would be to look into the Government documents and each case in the court. The Advocate-on-Record would inform the officer about the status and progress of each case. Besides, the officer would coordinate with various departments of the State Government.
The officer would look into SlPs and other petitions before they are filed in the Supreme Court by the Advocate-on-Record. For the smooth management of office work, staff like deputy project coordinator, data entry operator and Group D employees would be appointed at the cell, an official release here informed.
Besides, proposals for the appointment of five more Advocates-on-Record for the Supreme Court and formation of a special lawyers’ panel for the national tribunals and a senior advocate panel for the Supreme Court have been approved by the Chief Minister. The new appointments would certainly help quality management of cases on behalf of the State Government, said law Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo.