An IPAB order placed before the High Court by the defendants during the hearing of a trademark suit was found not to be genuine, following which contempt proceedings were initiated in the matter.
Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava on Thursday issued an assignment order naming three judges as part of the special bench to hear the proceedings initiated by Mantha on January 10.
The lawyer, Rajarethinam, was arrested on November 3, 2017, and was illegally kept at an undisclosed location, stripped, beaten up and tortured by the police.