The Jharkhand High Court on August 2 sought the FIR registered against advocate Rajeev Kumar, who has been arrested by Kolkata police in an extortion case.
Hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the advocate’s father, Satyadev Roy, seeking his son’s production, a division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad observed that the plea does not survive as the Kolkata police have confirmed that Kumar was arrested by the Hare Street police station on July 31.
Ritu Kumar, the president of the Advocates Association of Jharkhand High Court, argued the case for Kumar.
The division bench posted the matter for further hearing on August 10, and directed that the FIR registered against the advocate be presented before the court.
Members of the association had abstained from judicial work on August 1 to protest against Kumar’s arrest.
Kumar was arrested by the Kolkata police on the basis of a complaint registered by one Amit Agarwal, a Kolkata-based businessman.
He has been arguing on behalf of petitioners in the shell companies’ case against Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren.
He had also filed a PIL, seeking an independent inquiry into the violence that rocked Ranchi on July 10.
