Functioning of office of Advocate General of Odisha
(Exposed under RTI)
Dear friends
The
Constitution of India provides for the appointment of an Advocate- General for
each state of Indian Union. He is the first law officer of the state. As per article 165 of Indian constitution, The
Governor shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed a judge of High Court to be Advocate-General
of the state. It is the duty of Advocate General to give advice to the State Government upon such legal matters and to perform such
other duties of a legal character to be assigned to him.
To monitor
functioning of Advocate General, his performance ,
remuneration, other perks received, RTI
application dt. 26.5.17 was filed to the PIO,
Dept. of Law, Govt. Odisha which was transferred to the PIO, office of Advocate General, Cuttack to supply the information. The
information sought for as follows.
i. Details of joining of
Surya Prasad Mishra as advocate
General of Odisha
ii. Details of salary and other allowances
received by him since his joining to May
2017 ( Year-wise).
iii. Details of
travel allowances received by him (year –wise).
iv. Details of
Cases in which he has appeared in
High Court and Supreme Court and other
tribunals.
v. Details of fees received by him from
various Govt. and Non-Govt. organisations/ Private bodies while
pleading cases on their behalf
including case no. and name of court and tribunal.
vi. About act/ Rules or notification, if any who
authorizes Advocate General to
plead case for a private
organization.
On 10.7.17, the PIO has supplied
the following information
1.
Sri Surya Prasad Mishra assumes
the charges of the office of the Advocate General on 22.10.2014.
2.
Total Retainer drawn by Sri
Surya Prasad Mishra, Advocate General is as follows.
|
Year
|
Amount received (in Rs.)
|
Remarks
|
|
Oct.14 to Feb. 2015
|
1,08,065.00
|
Rs. 25,000/- per month
|
|
March, 2015 to Feb. 2016
|
3,00,000.00
|
DO
|
|
March 16 to Feb. 17
|
5,33,334.00
|
From Aug, 16, it increased to Rs. 50,000.00 per
month
|
|
March to May, 2017
|
1,50,000.00
|
|
3.
Details of Travel
Allowances received by Advocate
General as follows
Sri Mishra has received travel allowances while
visiting New Delhi and Kolkatta frequently
|
Year
|
Places visited
|
Amount ( in Rs.)
|
|
2014-15
|
New Delhi ( 5 times)
|
95,114.00
|
|
2015-16
|
New Delhi ( 5 times)
Kolkatta ( 8 times)
|
1,44,865.00
|
|
2016-17
|
Kolakatta ( 9 times)
New Delhi ( 9 times)
|
2,16,074.00
|
4.
Details of Bill of fees drawn by Sri Surya Prasad Mishra, Advocate General for
fighting various cases in High Court, Supreme Court and Tribunals. ( Though
information about Case No. was sought
for which the Advocate General has taken fees, the PIO has deliberately kept this information secret. The
First appeal has been filed to get the
information under section 19(1) of the
RTI Act)
|
Year
|
Amount
received
|
Remarks
|
|
2014-15
|
5,10,787.00
|
While fight
a case in SC, AG has received Rs. 64,000.00 on 14.12.14. The PIO has
not provided the case No.
|
|
2015-16
|
38,10,079.00
|
In a single case fighting in SC, AG has received
Rs. 10,52,000.00 on 2.7.15
In
another case in SC, AG has received Rs. 14, 68,000.00 on 2.8.15 ( The PIO has kept secret the
Case No.)
|
|
2016-17
|
69,35,977.00
|
While
fighting a case in SC, AG has received Rs. 11,52,000.00 on 7.10.16
In another
case dt. AG has received Rs. 11,48,000.00
In another
case dt. 3.2.17, AG received 14,08,000.00 and on 6.2.17, AG received Rs.
14,08,000.00
|
|
2017-18 (
From March to May)
|
1,62,000.00
|
|
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 13.7.17
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