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Insofar as Point no.4 is concerned it was answered thus:
"36. The impugned order is an administrative order by the Government under Section 24(8) of the Code. It is a statutory order. If all State actions must be just, fair and reasonable, the Special Public Prosecutor would be under less duty as a functionary of the State to discharge his functions as a Public Prosecutor in an equally just, fair and reasonable manner irrespective of the outcome of the trial. In that sense, he is a part of the judicature system and an upright Public Prosecutor has no friends and foes in Court. He has no prejudices, preconceived notions, bias, hostility or his own axe to grind. He represents public interest, but is not a partisan in the narrow sense of the terms.