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He has then in Paragraph 12 of the order described an incident of his experience as Standing Counsel Patna High Court MJC No.3659 of 2019(2) dt.29-08-2019 of the Central Bureau of Investigation. Paragraph 12 of the order is extracted hereinunder:-

"12. In the year 1995, while I was appointed as Standing Counsel for C.B.I., during holiday period, petition of some coal mafia was served in my residential chamber and I was told that the learned Advocate had already discussed with the then senior-most Judge. He requested to only accompany him to the residence of the said Judge. I reacted, then returned back the file. On the next day, one clerk of a senior Advocate approached me and said that being C.B.I. counsel I must receive the petition. I was not having any option, but I requested him that receipt would be given after one or two hours, then he returned back. There were three anticipatory bail petitions. It was mentioned in the notice that at 11:00 AM in the residential chamber of particular Judge, bail petition will be moved. I was completely perturbed. Immediately I rushed to some senior Judges of the Patna High Court i.e. Hon'ble Mr. Justice B.N.Agrawal (as he then was), Hon'ble Mr. Justice Nagendra Rai, Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.N.Jha, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Shashank Kumar Singh and Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.N. Prasad (as their lordships then were). At the resident of Patna High Court MJC No.3659 of 2019(2) dt.29-08-2019 Hon'ble Mr. Justice S. N. Jha, in presence of those Judges, I orally complained, and I wanted to know as to any Judge can hear a petition or not at his residence. All those Judges were also disturbed and asked me to go and oppose and say that the bail petition cannot be entertained at Patna High Court, since the F.I.R. was lodged at Dhanbad and C.B.I. was investigating the case. At 11:00 AM, I visited the residential chamber of the Judge, who was senior most Judge on the date of said holiday, since Hon'ble Mr. Justice D.P. Wadhwa (the then Chief Justice) was out of country. Ofcourse, I failed to get those anticipatory bail petitions dismissed, but succeeded to some extent that those anticipatory bail petitioners were transferred to Patna High Court Ranchi Bench, Ranchi. The said judge was none else but a senior Judge from Allahabad High Court. This happened in the year 1995. Again, it is known to everyone that one senior Judge from the Allahabad High Court during Fodder Scam period had got his wife nominated, as Rajya Sabha Member. This was not the end. Again, there was a Judge from Allahabad High Court, who granted bail to an accused, whose record of bail petition was lying in the Chamber of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Akhilesh Chandra (as he Patna High Court MJC No.3659 of 2019(2) dt.29-08-2019 then was), who was hearing his bail petition. So, corruption in this High Court is open secret."