"We are declining the said request for the reason that the present matter has not been assigned to any counsel for the State of Jharkhand and Ms. Langar has made this statement only in good faith to defend the State of Jharkhand."

During this, the bench said that the state government did not pay attention to such a sensitive matter and did not appoint any lawyer. The apex court refused to consider the request of the panel advocate of Jharkhand that the Chief Secretary not be summoned. In this case, the apex court had issued notices to the governments of Centre, Bihar and Jharkhand in November last year.

 

Advocates Aman Mohit Hingorani, Himanshu Yadav and Naseem Ahmed appeared for the petitioner - Bihar State Ardh Sarkari Arajpati Karamchari Maha Sangh.

Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee with Advocates Piyush Beriwal, Nidhi Khanna, Chinmayee Chandra, Rajesh Kumar Singh, AK Sharma and Prashant Rawat represented the Central government.

Advocates Abhinav Mukerji, Bihu Sharma, Pratishtha Vij and Mohit Prasad appeared for the Bihar government.