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SC panel asks Justice Dinakaran to go on leave
TNN, Apr 4, 2010, 02.04am IST
NEW DELHI: Already off judicial duty, Karnataka High Court chief
justice P D Dinakaran faced another setback with the Supreme Court
collegium asking him to go on leave.
Justice Madan B Lokur, acting chief justice of Delhi High Court, has
been made the acting chief justice of the Karnataka HC.
The SC collegium took the decision on Thursday after representations
from various quarters that judicial work at the Karnataka HC was
suffering in the absence of a functioning chief justice.
Interestingly, since the Constitution does not provide for a judge to
be sent on leave, cooperation of Justice Dinakaran is crucial for the
implementation of the collegium's decision.
The collegium also considered the fact that the inquiry against
Justice Dinakaran by a three-member committee headed by Justice V S
Sirpurkar will take more than a year to complete its work. Till then
judicial work at the Karnataka HC could not have been allowed to
suffer. The committee was set up by the Rajya Sabha chairperson Hamid
Ansari after admitting a motion seeking Justice Dinakaran's removal.
The allegations against Justice Dinakaran range included possessing
wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, unlawfully
securing five housing board plots in the name of his wife and two
daughters, entering into benami transactions, and acquiring and
possessing agricultural holdings beyond the ceiling limit.
There are also allegations that Justice Dinakaran was involved in
illegally encroaching on government and public property to deprive
dalits and poor of their livelihood, violation of human rights of
dalits and poor and destruction of evidence during the official
inquiry.
In its meeting, the collegium also recommended the name of MY Eqbal,
the senior-most judge of the Jharkhand High Court, as the new chief
justice of the Madras High Court. He will succeed Justice H L Gokhale,
who has been recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court.
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