New Delhi, December 19: The controversial Karnataka High Court chief Justice P D Dinakaran has received support from unexpected quarters. A group of Dalit MPs has come out to protest the impeachment motion moved against Dinakaran.
The group alleges that Dinakaran was being persecuted for being from the Scheduled Castes. The Parliamentary forum of MPs has termed the impeachment move as discrimination.
The Dalit MPs passed a resolution demanding that an inquiry should be instituted against all judges facing charges of corruption. They are planning to submit the resolution to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The move may put the Centre in a quandary over the impeachment proceedings in the upper House.
Significantally no Congress MP had signed the memorandum for impeachment submitted to Rajya Sabha Chairman by the Opposition.
Meanwhile, in what comes as more bad news for the embattled Dinakaran, a sitting judge of the Karnataka High Court has publicly asked him to proceed on leave.
Justice DV Shylendra Kumar has described Justice Dinakaran as a mis-conducting judge.
Justice Shylendra’s stand came on a day when Chief Justice of India said that Dinakaran is no longer going to be elevated to the apex court. Kumar was one of the first judges in the country to have made his assets public.
In an article posted on his website, Justice Kumar goes on to say, “the Chief Justice may even now continue to abuse and misuse his powers, even when he is no more discharging his duties as Chief Justice of the High Court.”
–Agencies