Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said on Tuesday that a person cannot be disqualified from being a member of a committee just because they ...
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said on Tuesday that a person cannot be disqualified from being a member of a committee just because they have earlier expressed an opinion on the subject that is under consideration by the panel, Bar and Bench reported. He was indirectly referring to the four-member committee created by the Supreme Court to resolve the deadlock between protesting farmers and the Centre on three contentious agricultural laws.
“There is some confusion regarding the law,” Bobde said during a hearing of a case related to inadequacies and inefficiencies in criminal trial. “One person may have an opinion before being part of the committee but his opinion can change. There is no way that such a person cannot be part of the committee.”
The remarks were made in the backdrop of Bharatiya Kisan Union President Bhupinder Singh Mann recusing himself from a panel constituted by the Supreme Court to hold talks with farmers protesting against the farm laws. Mann had pulled out of the panel after farmers had alleged that he was in favour of the farm laws. He had said that he would always stand with the farmers and Punjab. The Supreme Court had on January 12 suspended the implementation of the new farm laws until further orders...
