Four people were arrested from Jharkhand High Court premises on the directions of Chief Justice Virender Singh on Friday. All the four people, accused in a murder case, were charged of filing two criminal appeals at the same time in two separate courts of the High Court.
“Four persons — Nayan Oraon, Etwa Oraon, Chotna Oraon and Buddhan Oraon have been arrested following directions of Jharkhand High Court. All these four persons, hailing from Sisai in Gumla district, are accused in a murder case which took place in the year 1997,” said Officer in charge of Doranda Police Station.
“In order to ensure bail, they filed criminal appeals 186/2004 and 574/2004 in two different courts through the same advocate and succeeded in getting it from one court while the hearing continued in the second court,” said the OC.
Matter was revealed during the hearing in the first court following which they were slapped a show cause notice and summoned again in the court. When they appeared in the court on Friday, the court being not satisfied with the reply of the show cause, all the four were detained and handed over to the police on the directions of Chief Justice. Court sources said that the lawyer, appearing on their behalf, in both the petitions was the same.
The State Bar Council also, taking a serious note of the incident, has decided to look into the matter and take necessary action in this regard.
“Since it is a serious and sensitive matter, we are trying to gather all information regarding the incident following which a decision will be taken in this regard after we sit together. We will see to it that such things are not repeated again,” said Chairman of Jharkhand State Bar Council Rajeev Ranjan. “Such things happen sometimes by mistake which need to be corrected,” he added.