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Dinakaran's name not to be processed to Supreme Court: CJI
PTI
Sunday, November 1, 2009 14:11 IST
New Delhi: The names of four judges other than that of chief justice
of Karnataka High Court PD Dinakaran will be processed for elevation
to the Supreme Court, chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan today
said.
Asked about a newspaper report that the name of Dinakaran, who is
facing charges of land-grabbing, has been dropped, he only replied,
"No, no".
"We have only asked that the names of four other judges should be
processed for their appointment as judges of the Supreme Court,"
Balakrishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the All-India
Conference of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
Law minister M Veerappa Moily told PTI that he has received several
communications on various issues from many constitutional authorities
but he would not like to comment on anything regarding them.
The move to put on hold Dinakaran's elevation comes amid allegations
that the judge has amassed land in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district.
The Supreme Court Collegium had earlier considered a report of the
district collector of Tiruvallur which is believed to have pointed out
that at Kaverirajapuram in Tiruttani taluk alone, the extent of land
allegedly possessed by the judge was approximately 500 acres.
The Collegium had earlier cleared along with that of Dinakaran the
names of Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court AK Patnaik,
Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court TS Thakur, Chief
Justice of the Calcutta High Court SS Nijjar and Chief Justice of the
Gujarat High Court KS Radhakrishnan for elevation to the apex court.
The Collegium, headed by the CJI and comprising Justices BN Agarwal,
SS Kapadia and Altamas Kabir, had asked the district collector for his
report on the allegations against Dinakaran.
Earlier, various representations were made by eminent lawyers,
including those from Tamil Nadu, urging the CJI and the government to
probe the charges and not to elevate the judge.
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