Have done my duty, no regrets: Retired SC judge Chelameswar
New Delhi, Jun 23 (IBNS) : Justice Jasti Chelameswar, who retired from the Supreme Court on Friday as the most senior judge, believes that he does not think that Justice Ranjan Gogoi, next in line to succeed CJI Dipak Misra in October, will be superseded.
“They are all speculations. I don’t think supersession will happen,” Justice Chelameswar said in an interview to The Indian Express as he left for his ancestral village in Andhra Pradesh.
Recalling that he went to a village school where there would be a holiday each time it rained because it “had either leaking roofs or no roofs”, he said he drew on his deep personal experience of underprivileged India for difficult judicial decisions.
In another interview to The Hindu, Justice Chelameswar, who had led a band of senior Supreme Court judges to make an unprecedented outpour in public conveying their unhappiness over the style of functioning of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said through his career.
“I have done my duty to the best of my ability,” he said.
Justice Chelameswar said he had no regrets about his over-seven-year tenure at the top court.
The judge said he has stood by his principle that he would not stay back in the national capital for even “another day” and would pack his bags and leave for his village immediately.
Asked what his plans for the future are, he said, “I will take a few months’ rest...”
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