Solicitor-General Ranjit Kumar as amicus curiae to assist it in a matter related to the administration of Jagannath Temple in Puri.

• The “traditional” amicus curiae is the one who is asked to represent the accused in a criminal appeal – when the Accused is too poor and/or requests the court to provide him a lawyer or when the criminal does not engage his own lawyer to defend him against the State.
• Supreme Court and the high courts maintain panels of lawyers who are assigned amicus work in criminal appeals.
• The Supreme Court has mandated that legal aid, that is, a lawyer representing a poor accused, is a must in criminal cases.