AMRESHWAR PRATAP SAHI, J.

1. Heard Mr. Mrigank Mauli, learned Advocate for the applicants.

2. These review applications have been filed by a new set of lawyer. The ground for review as disclosed in the application is that the petitioner company had earlier entrusted this case to learned Senior Advocate, Sri L.N. Rastogi and Mr. S. K. Sharan, Mr. Ajay Rastogi, Mr. Manish Rastogi and Ms. Kalpana Rohtagi who were in the office of the Senior Advocate. It is stated that Mr. Ajay Rastogi, learned Advocate who was on record happens to be the son of Mr. L. N. Rastogi, Senior Advocate.

3. It is the further case of the petitioners that on 16.04.2018 when the matter came up for consideration before this Court, it appears that the same was sought to be withdrawn but the fact is that the petitioners company had no knowledge about listing of the appeal on 16.04.2018 so the question of giving instructions to the Advocates on record or to any other Advocate does not arise.

4. The review applications further state that only on 02.09.2018 the company official (Mr. V. K. Rungta) checked the status of the case online and he was shocked to see that the appeal has been dismissed as withdrawn, thereafter, he contacted the office of the learned Senior Counsel. At this stage the petitioner company also wrote a letter to the Advocates namely, Sri. L. N. Rastogi, Mr. Ajay Rastogi and other Advocates on record in the case on 17.09.2018, thereafter, the petitioners company was informed by Mr. L.N. Rastogi, Senior Advocate vide his letter dated 20.09.2018 that he had stopped appearing in the case from February, 2017 and at this stage it was informed that he had communicated vide his letter dated 18.02.2017 to the petitioners company that he had discontinued his practice and his son had joined the Government side in the 3rd week of July, 2016. It is the case of the review petitioners that the copy of letter dated 18.02.2017 was made available to the petitioners only enclosed with the letter dated 20.09.2018.

5. It is stated that there is an error apparent on the face of the record as the presence of Mr. Ajay Rastogi shown in the order dated 16.04.2018 is not correct.

6. We have given an anxious consideration to the submissions of learned counsel representing the petitioners company but were not persuaded to accept the submissions made by the petitioner for the following reasons:-

(i) The review application has been filed by a new set of lawyer who has not followed the views expressed by the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court in the case of Rotary Club, Begusarai etc. v. State of Bihar and others reported in, (2001) AIR Patna 115. The relevant part of the judgment of the Hon'ble Division Bench reads as under:-

"......... Recourse to review by change of lawyers is normally deprecated by Courts. The practice becomes all the more reprehensible when review is sought on grounds pertaining to the previous conduct of the case or other grounds of fact normally within the knowledge of the previous lawyers. To my mind a lawyer must be very reluctant to take up a brief of review unless he had appeared in the case, the order passed in which is the subject of review. In case for some reasons a change of lawyer is unavoidable, the newly engaged lawyer would owe it to himself and to the profession to have the statement of facts duly verified by the lawyer earlier conducting the case. In case a review is filed by a new lawyer a certificate ought to be appended to the review petition, preferably by the previous counsel, stating that the facts stated in the petition were correct or alternatively by the newly engaged lawyer testifying that he had got the facts stated in the review petition verified by the previous lawyer........"

(ii) From the narration of facts stated in the review applications, we find that the order of which the review has been sought was passed in presence of Mr. S.K. Sharan, Advocate, Mr. Ajay Rastogi, Advocate and Ms. Kalpana Rohtagi as also the learn