VP M Venkaiah Naidu begins consultation process on impeachment notice against CJI
New Delhi, Apr 23 (IBNS): Indian vice president M Venkaiah Naidu has started consulting legal experts on whether the opposition's notice for impeachment of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra will be accepted or rejected.
As the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha he is the only person to decide on the issue.
Sources told NDTV he has already spoken to Attorney General KK Venugopal, former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy, Subhash Kashyap, former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha, former Law Secretary PK Malhotra, former legislative secretary Sanjay Singh, and senior officials of the Rajya Sabha secretariat.
He is also expected to consult former Supreme Court judge Sudarshan Reddy, sources told the news channel.
As many as 64 Parliamentarians of the Rajya Sabha, representing seven political parties, recently signed the notice for impeachment proceedings against Misra for what they said "five listed grounds of misbehaviour." The parties are : the Congress, NCP, CPI (M), CPI, SP, BSP and the Muslim League.
Few other opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress, DMK and the Samajwadi Party refrained from participating in the move.
The move comes a day after the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed the demand for an investigation into the death of CBI judge BH Loya.
The impeachment move has its genesis in the public complaint made by four senior judges of the top court- Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph- that cases with far reaching consequences were assigned to selective judges.
Justice Chelameswar, who represented the four judges in an unprecedented press conference, said they had approached the CJI with a letter but failed to convince him.
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