{"id":8027,"date":"2011-01-04T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:49:46","slug":"ex-judge-asked-me-not-to-complain-against-balakrishnan-iyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/ex-judge-asked-me-not-to-complain-against-balakrishnan-iyer","title":{"rendered":"Ex-judge asked me not to complain against Balakrishnan: Iyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/V.R.-Krishna-Iyer.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8028\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/ex-judge-asked-me-not-to-complain-against-balakrishnan-iyer\/v-r-krishna-iyer\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/V.R.-Krishna-Iyer.bmp\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"V.R. 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I will not name the judge who visited me,&#8217; Iyer told a TV channel here.<\/p>\n<p>Iyer surprised many when he held a press conference Dec 27 and demanded an investigation into how Balakrishnan&#8217;s son-in-law P.V. Srinijin, a Congress leader and a lawyer by profession, had acquired huge wealth in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, reports of large scale amassing of wealth by Balakrishnan&#8217;s kith and kin have appeared in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a complaint, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has asked the vigilance department to initiate a probe against Srinijin.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers at the Kerala High Court also said Srinijin did not have a full fledged practice.<\/p>\n<p>Balakrishnan is currently the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission and has come under fire from several quarters, including senior apex court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who asked for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe Monday.<\/p>\n<p>State secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) C.K. Chandrappan Monday said the allegations, if proved true, were a shame for the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran demanded that retired judges too should come under the purview of the proposed judicial accountability bill.<\/p>\n<p>V.R. Krishna Iyer was the law and irrigation minister in the world&#8217;s first elected Communist government in 1957 led by E.M.S. 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