No judicial enquiry against former CJI: SC
New Delhi, Oct 29: The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a PIL seeking judicial enquiry against former Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal and also directions to Committee for Judicial Accountability to place on record the material in their possession to substantiate their allegations against Justice Sabharwal.
The
bench
comprising
Chief
Justice
K
G
Balakrishnan
and
Justice
R
V
Raveendran
however,
told
the
petitioner
Manohar
Lal
Sharma
that
any
enquiry
at
this
stage
shall
prejudice
the
case
of
Midday
journalists
whose
appeal
against
their
conviction
and
sentence
in
a
contempt
of
court
case
is
pending
before
the
court.
Midday, earlier in a report, had said that sealing order against commercial premises operating from residential areas in Delhi was passed by the bench headed by Justice Sabharwal to benefit his two sons who were allegedly having connections with shopping mall developers. The apex court then had dismissed the petition.
Earlier, Mr Sharma had pleaded before the court that the reputation of judiciary was being maligned and that the honourable court should appoint a judicial committee to examine the material which is being distributed at a press conferences by the office bearers of Committee for Judicial Accountability who include former Union law minister Shanti Bhushan.
Justice Sabharwal in his article in Times of India had denied all the allegations as baseless and false.
UNI