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Opposition unite to sign plea seeking impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra

  •   Wed, Mar 28 2018 12:20:20 PM

New Delhi, Mar 28 (DC): Backed by several opposition parties, Congress is leading efforts to bring an impeachment motion in the parliament against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.

The parties are circulating an unprecedented petition for sacking the Chief Justice of India, leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have confirmed.

NCP’s Majeed Memon said signatures of 20 members have been collected so far. Three Congress leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Ahmed Patel have reportedly signed the petition and five more signatories are from the NCP.

Congress leaders said nothing on record on the move that has been confirmed mainly by NCP leaders Majid Memon and DP Tripathi.

"The Congress as the largest Opposition party has belatedly initiated the proceedings for impeachment of the Chief Justice of India," Majid Memon said on Tuesday.

NCP's DP Tripathi said, "I have signed it and others are also signing it and the process is going on." The CPI-M and CPI have also signed the petition, he said.

The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday said it supports the petition. "The Samajwadi Party stands with the impeachment motion, which is about bringing independence and unquestionable integrity to the judiciary," SP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari told news agency ANI.

Tripathi said it is not just corruption, but "the charges are far more serious" and it emanates from the letter that four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court had earlier written stating that there was danger to the independence of judiciary.

Meanwhile, the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP M Rajamohan Reddy on Wednesday said his party has not received any proposal for moving an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.

The petition refers to allegations that sensitive cases were assigned to handpicked judges and the most-senior judges were ignored; the allegations were raised in January by the four top Supreme Court judges - J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurien Joseph - after the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.

To move an impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India, signatures of 100 MPs are needed in Lok Sabha while in signatures of 50 members are required in Rajya Sabha.

Leaders of several opposition parties reportedly met and discussed the issue with the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Many opposition leaders, including those from Trinamool Congress, NCP and the CPI(M), have reportedly held discussions over the past few days.

The development came after West Bengal Chief Minister and TRinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee's meeting with senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday to discuss a possible impeachment motion against the CJI.

The impeachment motion is in relation to the CJI's handling of the matters raised by four Supreme Court judges in a press conference on January 11.
  

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  • S. Francis, udupi

    Wed, Mar 28 2018

    Very good move. It is very much needed for Indian citizens to safeguard Indian Judiciary and their constitutional rights which have been hijacked by the ruling Central governments (whether is BJP, Congress, all parties are involved) with the help of CJI and some of his fellow judges. Two things are for sure for these people to act on behalf of the ruling governments to give verdict in favour of their tainted, criminal, corrupt leaders and aquit them, one is they are corrupt or they are threatened by political parties. Let us support this move and make sure any political party whether it is BJP, Congress, CPI, etc, not to interfere in judiciary proceedings and act as a sovereign body which they are. Not only opposition, but even all honest ruling party leaders must join this campaign. Then only any future CJI or any judge, Election Commision, CBI, ED will not dare to act on political parties or leaders pressure. Then only we can expect a free fair justice and a unbiased judiciary system which is one of the strong pillars of Democractic India. Jai Hind

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Wed, Mar 28 2018

    Good move . Unity must be for right thing.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Wed, Mar 28 2018

    indian citizens need impartial & a just judgement.

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  • Narain, Mangaluru

    Wed, Mar 28 2018

    This is a good sign for the country.

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