Supreme Court Justice Tarun Chatterjee is the fellow who has issued the CBI probe into the Sohrabuddin case. Notably, he did this on his last day before retirement. Chatterjee himself was already the focus of a CBI probe into corruption allegations against him. He is alleged to have misappropriated state money from a Provident Fund. The prime accused and main witness in the case was a bill clerk named Ashutosh Asthana, who named Justice Chatterjee as one of the recipients of diverted money. Asthana seems to have died under mysterious circumstances in the Ghaziabad jail. As a result, the case against Chatterjee could not be pursued.
So I'm then wondering about Justice Chatterjee's professional integrity as a judge, and any possible ulterior motives on his part in issuing a CBI probe into the Sohrabuddin case. What role might the ruling party at the Centre have in all of this?
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There is a lot of judicial corruption too. BJP should wonder if there was any 'quid pro quo' for ordering probes against its party in Gujarat.
Lets not forget SC Justice Ahmadi diluted the charges against Union Carbide and later after retirement became chairman of the hospital funded by none other than Carbide!
How did exceptionally corrupt Dinakaran became HC Justice in Karnataka and later got to be nominated to be the SC Justice?
This entire post retirement sinecures reek of corruption.
Retiring Judges passing controversial judgments in the end looks like a formula found. I here many cases like this one recently. So, bring in such a Judge who is retiring and can be back-mailed, get the Justice! (No, its motive) as you want.
I am sure Congress will pay price for this, but when! How long it would be!
Please read foll. links from Kanchan Gupta's website:
http://kanchangupta.blogspot.com/2010/07/for-cbi-slander-is-evidence.html
and this link
http://kanchangupta.blogspot.com/2010/07/criminal-history-of-sohrabbuddin.html
Congress will not understand decency and pleading for justice; it has to be handled in other ways.
Another CJ of Karnataka High Court, Justice Dinakaran's predecessor, was also involved in a controversial episode:
Fresh storm in Abhaya murder case
The Times of India, Aug 11, 2009, 07.47am IST
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 16-year-old Sister Abhaya murder case took a startling twist on Monday with the CBI stating that a former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, who is currently a Supreme Court judge, had viewed the CDs of the narco-analysis test conducted on two Catholic priests and a nun accused in the case. The judge visited the lab in May 2008.
Although CBI counsel S Sreekumar did not take any name, it was clear that the reference was to Justice Cyriac Joseph, former Chief Justice of the Karnataka HC.
Justice Joseph was in no way officially connected with the Abhaya Murder case.
The similarity between Justice Joseph and Justice Dinakaran (full name: Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar) goes further: both belong to the same religion, both are said to belong to “scheduled caste”, and both were recommended to be elevated to the Supreme Court. Justice Joseph is a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
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