After drawing serious flak over the acquittal of the four accused in the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts case, the state government has sacked Additional Advocate General (AAG) Rajendra Yadav for failing to effectively argue the case in the Rajasthan High Court. “After examining the matter in a high-level meeting, it has been decided that we will appeal in Supreme Court after the High Court verdict in the Jaipur blast case. The government will engage the best advocates. A decision has been taken to end the services of the additional advocate general who has failed to effectively argue the case in High Court,” Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot tweeted Friday. A division bench Wednesday acquitted the four accused. The case was argued by additional government advocate Rekha Madnani, whose work was also appreciated by the court in its judgment. However, sources said that what irked the government after the verdict was AAG Yadav’s lack of monitoring of the case. A senior law officer told The Indian Express, “A case is first assigned to an AAG. Thereafter, the AAG decides to assign the case to a government advocate and has to monitor the developments all the time. The government felt when the blast case was first assigned to AAG Yadav, he should have understood the gravity of the issue and done regular monitoring. But he did not go to the court during the hearings.” Yadav said: “Since February 2022, the blast case was no longer with me because of fresh redistribution and allocation of work.” He declined to comment further.
