It has been a week since Andhra Pradesh government released a letter written by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to the Chief Justice of In...
It has been a week since Andhra Pradesh government released a letter written by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. The letter, put in public domain on October 10, made explosive allegations about NV Ramana, the Suprme Court’s second-most senior judge.
In the letter, Reddy accused Justice Ramana of interfering in the functioning of the Andhra Pradesh High Court to favour of former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu and trying to destabilise the current state government.
Last month, the Andhra Pradesh High Court had stayed the investigation into a first information report on a land deal in the construction of the state’s new capital Amaravati during the previous Telugu Desam tenure. Justice Ramana’s daugthers have been accused, as has a former advocate general. The court also issued a gag order on the media from reporting on the FIR or its context, which Scroll.in will follow.
In the week that has gone by, the reaction in the English media has been predictable. It has been pointed out in several news reports quoting lawyers and former judges that Jagan Reddy’s decision to release the letter is in all probability a response to a decision that a bench led...
