The high court was hearing a PIL highlighting the waterlogging problem in the city during the monsoon. Sinha was directed by the HC to constitute a team of lawyers to vist waterlogged localities in Patna and inspect whether civic amenities were being provided to the citizens or not.

The member-lawyers of the team, who have been given responsibilities in their respective areas, are Rajesh Sinha and Rupak Kumar for Kadamkuan area, Mayank Rukhaiyar and Purnendu Singh for Rajendranagar, Rajiv Roy for Machchuatoli, Anjani Kumar and Shashi Bhushan Kumar for Kankerbagh, Alok Kumar Sinha for Chitragupta Nagar, for Bahadurpur Housing Colony, the responsibility goes to Kumar Amitesh Chandra and Harendra Prasad Singh, while for Boring Road/Pataliputra Colony, Vivekanand Kumar and Vivek Prasad have been given the charge for Ashiananagar the responsibility goes to Rajesh Kumar.

The nine points to be looked into by the lawyers committee are--removal of water from roads and ditches, removal of garbages, sprinkling of bleaching and gamaxin powder on road, distribution of bleaching powder and gamaxine to the residents in affected areas, fogging in affected areas, duration of electric supply to (water) pumping stations, distribution of free medicine to patients falling sick due to waterlogging and supply of unsafe drinking water and mosquito problem, distrubution of tablets for purification of drinking water and measures for prevention of water-borne diseases.