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| Justice Lakshmanan breaks down |
| When senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi sought details of the letter, the judge simply said, "The contents are heinous."
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| INDIA
, 17-March-2007
3:1:48 AM |
| Justice A. R. Lakshmanan on Friday broke down, his voice choked with emotion, in the Supreme Court before a scheduled hearing of a petition filed by Akhilesh Yadav, Member of Parliament and son of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh, seeking a review of the Court's March 1 order directing a CBI probe into their alleged disproportionate assets. Justice Lakshmanan declined to hear the matter after informing counsel that he had received an anonymous letter in the morning. Declining to reveal the contents of the letter, he said, "I have been a judge for 17-and-a-half years in various High Courts including five years in the Supreme Court. I have never received such a letter in my entire judicial career."
(The letter was received by fax at his residence just before he left for the Court in the morning. It did not contain the fax number from where it was sent. The letter, which alleged that Justice Lakshmanan was influenced to pass an order in favour of Mr. Singh, has been handed over to Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan for appropriate action.)
When senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi sought details of the letter, the judge simply said, "The contents are heinous."
Justice Altamas Kabir, who was on the Bench along with Justice Lakshmanan, said, "The contents are shocking." The brother judge receiving such a letter when he was due to retire "is really worrying," Mr. Justice Kabir said. "We are not interested in hearing any particular matter."
Justice Lakshmanan, who was upset and virtually in tears, said: "Myself, my wife and family are very much disturbed by the contents of the letter. I don't want to hear the matter."
Senior lawyers led by Soli Sorabjee, Ashok Desai, Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, Rajeev Dhavan and Mukul Rohatgi tried to pacify Justice Lakshmanan by telling him, "Such letters are quite common. We have absolute faith and the utmost confidence in this Court."
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