The Varanasi court docket on Tuesday eliminated the Advocate Commissioner it had appointed initially to supervise the videographic survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complicated, stating that he had been “highly irresponsible” in executing the work.
The court docket additionally prolonged the deadline for submission of the survey report by two days to May 19.
The elimination of Advocate Commissioner Ajay Kumar Mishra got here on an utility filed by Vishal Singh, the Special Advocate Commissioner. Singh was appointed by the court docket final Thursday for the survey following of bias levelled by the mosque committee in opposition to Mishra.
In his utility to Civil Judge (Senior Division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar, Vishal Singh alleged that Mishra and Assistant Advocate Commissioner Ajay Pratap Singh, who was additionally appointed final week, weren’t cooperating within the survey — and {that a} personal cameraman with Mishra was “ giving bytes” to the media.
“Special Advocate Commissioner Vishal Singh has given this application seeking clarity on the situation… It is clear that the private cameraman of Advocate Commissioner Ajay Kumar Mishra constantly gave bytes to the media, which is completely against judicial conduct,” the court docket stated in its order .
The order said that the court docket has eliminated Mishra with “immediate effect”, and that Assistant Advocate Commissioner Ajay Pratap Singh has been directed to not do something independently, and work below Vishal Singh.
It said that Vishal Singh will file a report on work achieved by the fee after May 12, when he was appointed.
Earlier, Mishra and Ajay Pratap Singh apprised the court docket that they had been totally cooperating within the survey. But Vishal Singh submitted that Mishra’s “personal cameraman” was giving “wrong statements” to the media — and therefore was stored out of the fee’s work on Monday.
In its order, the court docket said that when a lawyer is appointed as an advocate commissioner and executes the capabilities of a fee, he’s within the place of a public servant and anticipated to execute the work with honesty, in an unbiased method, and never make any irresponsible assertion in public.
Speaking to reporters about his utility on Ajay Kumar Mishra, Vishal Singh stated: “The impartiality of the fee was being questioned. Action has occurred in order that no query is raised on its equity.” The survey report might be filed in two days, he stated.
Mishra, nonetheless, advised reporters that he was “paying the price for honesty” and claimed that he had not achieved something to hamper the fee’s work.
Mishra was appointed by the Varanasi court docket on April 8 to hold out the survey of the disputed web site, “prepare videography of the action” and submit a report. Subsequently, the mosque committee had filed an utility within the court docket, accusing him of being “biased”.
Meanwhile, three of the 5 ladies petitioners within the case filed an utility earlier than the Varanasi court docket in search of measurement of the Shivling, which is claimed to have been discovered through the videographic survey of the mosque space.
They additionally appealed for the survey to cowl extra space, and elimination of particles and partitions from the world.
Hearing the appliance filed by Rekha Pathak, Manju Vyas and Sita Sahu, the court docket requested for objections, if any, to be submitted by Wednesday when the case is prone to be heard.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
