The Advocate-General resigned his position and held a press conference where he rained charges on the Chief Secretary and the Lokayukta. It was alleged that the Advocate General had purchased a bungalow in an elite area of Bhopal and had spent Rs. 2 crore on its renovation after he became the AG. The AG's wife happens to be the Mayor of the Jabalpur municipal corporation.

The AG blamed the Chief Secretary for tarnishing his image. “Whenever the government lost any case, the chief secretary presented a negative picture before the chief minister, blaming me for the government's defeat,” he said. At the same time, the AG said, the Chief Secretary paid scant regard to the orders of the High Court, resulting in over 4000 contempt cases against the government pending before the HC.

It was probably for the first time in the state that the state's topmost legal representative quit his job following differences with the topmost administrative entity. The bitterness between the two was evident by the way the AG referred to the Chief Secretary.

Former Lokayukta Mr. (Justice) Ripusudan Dayal, who was blamed by the AG for forcing state-owned undertakings to give their cases to his advocate son, too was involved in several controversies. He left Bhopal on June 22 after completing his five-year term as the Lokayukta.

He has left around 1200 complaints pending and these include complaints against the Chief Minister, ministers and top officials. He was involved in a murky court case.

In 2008, a Bhopal court ordered an enquiry against him for getting houses allotted by the MP Housing Board in his and his son's names in a coveted and prestigious locality of Bhopal. The Lokayukta moved the HC seeking action against the judicial magistrate but his plea was dismissed. He was also the first Lokayukta against whom a police enquiry was initiated for probing corruption charges. (IPA)