Opposition parties to move impeachment motion against CJI Dipak Misra
New Delhi, Apr 20 (IBNS): Several opposition parties along with the Congress are willing to move an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, who had been alleged to assign cases of far reaching consequences to selective judges by senior Supreme Court judges, media reports said.
Several opposition parties met Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on this issue on Friday.
However, Congress itself is divided in opinions over the impeachment motion.
Opposition parties like Trinamool Congress (TMC), DMK, Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) do not support the impeachment motion.
So far, the cluster of opposition parties could manage to get 60 lawmakers' signatures on the petition to move the motion, media report said.
Four senior judges of the top court- Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph- months ago alleged that cases with far reaching consequences were assigned to selective judges.
Justice Chelameswar, who represented the four judges in an unprecedented press conference, said they had approached the CJI with a letter but failed to convince him.
Just a day ago, a bench led by Misra dismissed all pleas seeking an independent probe in the death of Justice BH Loya, stirring fresh row.
Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah was accused, died due to cardiac arrest.
The new judge who replaced Loya acquitted Shah of all charges.
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