New Kerala: Mumbai: Wednesday, July 04, 2018.
The
Maharashtra government has decided to pay up Rs 1.21 crore to senior counsel
Mukul A. Rohatgi, who represented the state government in the Judge B.H. Loya
case hearings before the Supreme Court, an RTI reply has revealed.
The state
government appointed Rohatgi - former Attorney General of India - as a Special
Prosecutor in the case, besides former Solicitor General of India and senior
lawyer Harish Salve, said RTI activist Jatin Desai.
"In
April, an apex court bench presided over by the Chief Justice of India
dismissed a couple of petitions demanding an inquiry into the circumstances
surrounding the death of CBI Special Judge Loya," Desai told IANS.
Representing
Maharashtra, Rohatgi appeared in the matter 11 times before the Supreme Court,
for which the state government approved Rs 11 lakh per hearing as his
professional fees, he added.
The state
government's decision came by an order dated June 11, 2018, from the Home
Department, headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis which was provided along
with the RTI reply.
However,
Desai said the information pertaining to the professional fees paid to Salve
has not yet been provided by the state government under RTI.
"Even
the information on the remuneration approved for Rohatgi was made available
only in the first appeal. So now, I plan to file an appeal for Salve,"
Desai said.