By Rupang Bhatt, Ahmedabad, 6 February 2012

Gujarat Lokayukta case is scheduled to be heard on 20th March in the Supreme Court of India. Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar will hear the case possibly for continuously three days starting from 20th March.

In this context it is very interesting to know about the number of lawyers that are representing both sides. On one side there’s the Government of Gujarat whose minister of state for law himself has filed the petition against the method adopted by the Governor of Gujarat while appointing the state Lokayukta. On the other side there’s retired Justice RA Mehta and others. And the total figure of lawyers involved in this case from both sides is mind boggling 48!

The lawyers fighting for petitioners(the government of Gujarat) are Harisn N Salve, Mukul Rohatgi, Soli Sorabjee, Yatin Oza, Rajeev Dhawan and Mihir Thakur as senior advocates, Kamal B Trivedi as AG and Prakash J, Sangeeta Kishen, Mahesh Agarwal, Rishi Agrawala, Prakash Jain, Amit Panchal, Ankur Saigal, Abhinav Agrawal, EC Agrawala, S Uday Kumar Sagar, Bina Madhavan Praseena E Joseph, Unmesh Shukla(for M/S Lawyer’s Knit & Co), Amit Panchal, Sanjay Hegde, Tenzin Tesering, S Nithin and Anil Kumar Mishra. The total comes to 26.

While the lawyers fighting this case from respondent retired Justice RA Mehta and others are: Fali Nariman and SB Upadhyay as senior lawyers and Huzefa Ahmadi, Ejaz Maqbool, Anand Yagnik, Umang Vadhela, Garima Kapoor, Mrigank Prabhakar, Pawan Upadhyay, Anisha Upadhyay, Dipak Kirata S, Param Mishra, Sharmila Upadhyay, Prashant Bhushan, Yogesh Joshi, Ravindra Adsure as lawyers. Added to this Mr. PP Rao, Padma Laxmi, Varun Vaghela, Abhijat P Medh and Rajiv Nanda are with respondent as intervenors. So the other side has a strength of 22 lawyers.

The court allowed intervention applications as not opposed by Mr. Harish Salve, senior counsel appearing for the State of Gujarat. The court has ordered to list the matters on 20th March, 2012 for final hearing at admission stage. The court has also said in its order that written submissions, if any, may be filed in the meantime.

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