Bengal Advocate General Jayanta Mitra resigns

The Advocate General of Bengal government Jayanta Mitra resigned from his post on Tuesday.

The additional-advocate general Lakshmi Gupta will follow Mitra on Wednesday, as he has also decided to resign from his post. The Calcutta High Court source revealed that both of those veteran lawyers took the decision after their opinion differed with the state government.

The source in the court said, Mitra and his colleagues including Gupta, believed that they could not defend the state government in several cases.

The court was also dissatisfied with several approaches of state government, which was known to Mitra. The eminent judges acknowledged the authority of Mitra as one of the senior lawyers in Calcutta High Court. They also expressed their dissatisfaction to him.

The sources informed that many judges expressed their dissatisfaction to Mitra on several issues.

However, a different faction of the lawyers in the Calcutta High Court said that Mitra was dissatisfied with his own performance. So, he was reluctant to extend his tenure as Advocate General of Bengal government. But many senior lawyers said that this is the third time that such incident happened in Calcutta High Court during the regime of present state government.

It should be recalled that the first Advocate General Anindya Kumar Mitra, during the tenure of this government, resigned from his post.

Later, senior lawyer Bimal Chatterjee took his chair. But Chatterjee left the post citing health related problems. Jayanta Mitra took the chair in 2014. But he resigned from his post for the first time on May 19, 2016. Later, he was reappointed as Advocate General on June 27, 2016.