Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Summons and appearance.- (1) Where in a case other than a Writ Petition instituted against the State Government or against an officer of the State Government in his official capacity, summons or notice thereof is served on such or any other officer of the State Government, such officer shall unless he is himself the Departmental Secretary, report the fact of such summons or notice to the Departmental Secretary, who shall make a request to the Law Secretary to authorize a Law Officer to appear for the Government in the case and ensure that the case is not heard or decided ex-parte. (2) The Departmental Secretary shall indicate to the authorized Law Officer the name of the officer who is conversant with the subject matter or the facts of the case, the name of the officer who is to verify and sign the pleading to be filed in the case and of the Litigation Conducting Officer for the case and shall also furnish to the Law Officer, copies of all documents necessary for defending the case and at the request of the Law Officer entrust the files relating to the matter to the Law Officer. (3) Where a summons or notice in a case is addressed to the Chief Secretary to Government, the Head of the Legal Cell in the concerned department shall receive the same The Head of the Legal Cell shall send request to the Law Department to authorize a Law Officer to appear on behalf of the Government and also forward a copy of the pleading and Interim applications received by him to the Departmental Secretary and to the Head of the Department for taking necessary action, to offer remarks and to forward the report and papers indicated in sub- section (2).