A Right to Information (RTI) plea has revealed that the Himachal Pradesh Government lacks information about the personal details of a battery of legal Eagles representing the State in the High Court.
“The public information officer of the advocate general provided me the names of the recently selected candidates only. This means the advocate general did not have information about all the additional and deputy advocate generals,” RTI activist Dev Ashish Bhattacharya told IANS.
He said that since the lawyers deal with sensitive cases, it was obligatory on the part of the Government to select candidates after proper scrutiny.
The State has so far appointed 15 additional and eight deputy advocate generals. As per the normal procedure, the department of home issues the selection notification and after that, officers join the office of the advocate general.
Bhattacharya said he filed an RTI application on January 8 and sought details of the names and address of each selected candidate, their experience and a copy of their latest income tax return.