The Supreme Courtroom had earlier pulled up Justice Abhijeet Gangopadhyay
New Delhi:
The Supreme Courtroom will convene for a particular listening to in the present day after it took suo motu cognisance of Calcutta Excessive Courtroom Decide Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s accusation in opposition to a colleague.
5 senior judges of the Supreme Courtroom, together with Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, will hear the case in the present day at 10:30 am.
In an unprecedented occasion, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay accused his colleague, Justice Soumen Sen who presided over a division bench that stayed a single-judge order for a CBI probe into medical admission irregularities, of working for a political social gathering.
This got here after Justice Sen stayed an order handed by Justice Gangopadhyay, who had ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, into allegations of faux caste certificates being issued in Bengal.
Nevertheless, after his order was stayed by Justice Sen’s division bench, Justice Gangopadhyay took up the matter once more and ordered the CBI to take up the investigation.
In his later order, Justice Gangopadhyay not solely ignored the Division Bench’s order but additionally requested for a relook by the Supreme Courtroom into the orders handed by Justice Sen whom he accused of working for a political social gathering.
”Justice Sen is clearly working for some political social gathering on this state. Due to this fact, if the Honorable Supreme Courtroom thinks so, then there’s a have to re-look on the orders handed in circumstances associated to the state. What Justice Sen has accomplished in the present day is to additional his private curiosity to avoid wasting political social gathering in energy on this state. Due to this fact, his actions clearly quantity to misconduct,” Justice Gangopadhyay stated.
Justice Gangopadhyay additionally questioned why Justice Sen remained a Calcutta Excessive Courtroom decide regardless of a Supreme Courtroom Collegium recommending his switch in 2021.
In his order, Justice Gangopadhyay revealed a purported personal chat between judges. He alleged that Justice Sen referred to as Justice Amrita Sinha to his chambers on the final day earlier than the latest court docket trip and advised her that Abhishek Banerjee has a political future and that he should not be disturbed.
Justice Sinha reported the matter to the Chief Justice of Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, who has reported the matter to the Chief Justice of India, Justice Gangopadhyay claimed.
Justice Abhijeet Gangopadhyay has been pulled up earlier by the Supreme Courtroom for chatting with the press on circumstances he was listening to.
He has usually made statements which have been interpreted as political. Most of those statements have been perceived to be in opposition to the ruling Trinamool Congress within the state. The TMC demanded he ought to step down from the judiciary to hitch politics as an alternative.