A.R. Lakshmanan, J.

Though a Division Bench of this Court, in the decision reported in 1997 (1) KLT 788 expressed their displeasure and sorrow by the unseemly controversy between the Advocate General (hereinafter referred to as "the ag" ) and the Director General of Prosecution (hereinafter referred to as "the DGP") and disposed of the said case with a fond hope that the unhappy episode will be forgotten and not allowed to recur to sully the image of the two officers, the controversy, which appears to have been simmering has come to the surface again.

2. The root cause for the current controversy is the office direction issued by the Director General of Prosecution under Ext. P1 dated 5.2.1998 informing the Kerala High Court Advocates Association and the High Court Advocate Clerks Association that copies of all criminal case may be directly forwarded to his office with memo (after the cases are numbered in the registry section of the High Court and before sent to the Bench for admission) and such copies will be entered in the registrar kept in his office and acknowledgment of the same will be noted in the memo with the seal of his office and under his signature or of any