{"id":34364,"date":"2014-07-23T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34364"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:32:13","slug":"government-demands-statement-manmohan-singh-corrupt-judge-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/government-demands-statement-manmohan-singh-corrupt-judge-issue","title":{"rendered":"Government demands statement from Manmohan Singh on corrupt judge issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A day after informing Parliament that the PMO under Manmohan Singh had pushed for extension to a judge facing corruption charges, the government today demanded that the former Prime Minister should make a &#8220;categorical&#8221; statement on the controversial matter.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the whole account of the affair, first brought out by former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, showed how the government was functioning during the UPA regime. It was\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">trying to compromise on each and every issue, he alleged.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Questioning the silence of Singh, he told reporters here, &#8220;His silence is an indication that there is something to hide. So in the interest of justice, the former Prime Minister should come out and make a categorical statement about what exactly has happened. Was he really under pressure?\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>&#8220;All these things people of India have got a right to know. That will help enhance the image of the judiciary and also remove the misgivings if any by such a statement from the former PM,&#8221; Naidu said.<\/p>\n<p>Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had informed Parliament yesterday the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) under Singh had written a note, asking why the Supreme Court collegium had not recommended extension for a Madras High Court judge who was facing corruption charges after the collegium\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">collegium expressed its hesitation.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Giving details of the controversial case over which Parliament has witnessed uproar, he had said the Supreme Court collegium in 2003 had &#8220;certain reservations&#8221; and had made some inquiries and decided that the case of this judge should not be taken up.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But later during the UPA rule, a clarification was sought by the PMO as to why he should not be recommended, Prasad had said in Lok Sabha.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">His response had come after an uproar over the issue forced two adjournments of Lok Sabha as agitated AIADMK members stormed the Well demanding that the name of the then DMK minister who &#8220;pressurised&#8221; the UPA government to confirm the appointment of controversial judge be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Katju has alleged that three ex-Chief Justices of India&#8211; Justice R C Lahoti and his successors Justices Y K Sabharwal and K G Balakrishnan&#8211;made &#8220;improper compromises&#8221; and &#8220;succumbed&#8221; to political pressure in the extension of additional judge at the instance of UPA-I government owing to pressure from an ally, a &#8220;Tamil Nadu party&#8221;, and his confirmation as permanent judge.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">PTI<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after informing Parliament that the PMO under Manmohan Singh had pushed for extension to a judge facing corruption charges, the government today demanded that the former Prime Minister should make a &#8220;categorical&#8221; statement on the controversial matter.\u00a0Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the whole account of the affair, first brought out by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29211],"class_list":["post-34364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-government-demands-statement-from-manmohan-singh-on-corrupt-judge-issue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government demands statement from Manmohan Singh on corrupt judge issue - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A day after informing Parliament that the PMO under Manmohan Singh had pushed for extension to a judge facing corruption charges, the government today - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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