On October 6, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy sent a letter to Chief Justice of India SA Bobde in which he made sensatio...
On October 6, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy sent a letter to Chief Justice of India SA Bobde in which he made sensational allegations about Justice NV Ramana, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court.
For over five months, the Supreme Court did not say anything about the action it was taking with regard to the letter.
On Wednesday, a single-page statement from the court said the letter had been dealt under its in-house procedure and was dismissed after “due consideration”. The contents of the proceedings, the court said, were “strictly confidential” and so were not liable to be made public.
The statement came on a day Justice Bobde recommended Justice Ramana to be the next chief justice of India as per the seniority principle. Justice Ramana will take over on April 24.
This brings to an unceremonious end one of the most dramatic chapters in the court’s history, in which a sitting chief minister of a large state took the unprecedented step of putting on record serious allegations against a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
The manner in which the court has dealt with the allegations is problematic in several ways, the first of which is the disregard shown...
