NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh on Wednesday condemned the allegations levelled by lawyer Prashant Bhushan against Chief Justice Dipak Misra in the medical scam case and demanded initiation of prison contempt against him.
A day after Bhushan stated he had sent a criticism to the 5 seniormost judges after the CJI, Singh pointed out "certain factual inaccuracies" in the criticism by the use of a letter to the same judges.
"The entire complaint revolves on this falsehood that if the facts were to be put in perspective, there could be no question of any wrongdoing in the matter and the complaint by Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) is an attempt to scandalise the judiciary and hence the complainant needs to be charged with criminal contempt," Singh's letter addressed to Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur, Kurian Joseph and A Okay Sikri stated.
Sent in his private capacity as a senior suggest, Singh's letter underlined that he gave the impression for the Medical Council of India in the Prasad Education Trust topic, adding that he used to be "quite confident that there was no wrongdoing by the Supreme Court while dealing with the said matter".
Referring to the court cases of September 18 - CJAR has questioned if the order that day used to be dictated in open courtroom or used to be saved pending and dictated later following CBI raids - Singh clarified that "on that date, there were in all 10 matters of medical colleges listed before the court presided over by the CJI and in five matters, similar orders were passed denying permission to the college for the current year and directing that the college could be considered for the next year and also the order in all the cases were dictated in open court".
He stated CJAR's insinuation that the order could have been changed later used to be "a direct assault to cast serious aspersions not only on the CJI but also on members of the bench, Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, who heard the matters along with the CJI on September 18".
The senior suggest slammed CJAR and stated the alleged conversations between middlemen could no longer in any way "attribute any wrongdoing on the part of the judges hearing the matter". Singh additionally annexed main points of the 5 orders handed on the same day as Prasad Education Trust topic with main points of case details and date on which order used to be uploaded on the SC web site.
A day after Bhushan stated he had sent a criticism to the 5 seniormost judges after the CJI, Singh pointed out "certain factual inaccuracies" in the criticism by the use of a letter to the same judges.
"The entire complaint revolves on this falsehood that if the facts were to be put in perspective, there could be no question of any wrongdoing in the matter and the complaint by Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) is an attempt to scandalise the judiciary and hence the complainant needs to be charged with criminal contempt," Singh's letter addressed to Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur, Kurian Joseph and A Okay Sikri stated.
Sent in his private capacity as a senior suggest, Singh's letter underlined that he gave the impression for the Medical Council of India in the Prasad Education Trust topic, adding that he used to be "quite confident that there was no wrongdoing by the Supreme Court while dealing with the said matter".
Referring to the court cases of September 18 - CJAR has questioned if the order that day used to be dictated in open courtroom or used to be saved pending and dictated later following CBI raids - Singh clarified that "on that date, there were in all 10 matters of medical colleges listed before the court presided over by the CJI and in five matters, similar orders were passed denying permission to the college for the current year and directing that the college could be considered for the next year and also the order in all the cases were dictated in open court".
He stated CJAR's insinuation that the order could have been changed later used to be "a direct assault to cast serious aspersions not only on the CJI but also on members of the bench, Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, who heard the matters along with the CJI on September 18".
The senior suggest slammed CJAR and stated the alleged conversations between middlemen could no longer in any way "attribute any wrongdoing on the part of the judges hearing the matter". Singh additionally annexed main points of the 5 orders handed on the same day as Prasad Education Trust topic with main points of case details and date on which order used to be uploaded on the SC web site.
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