Father Stan Swamy
MUMBAI: A Bombay high court bench headed by Justice S S Shinde on Friday took back its “personal comments” on the work of Father Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case who died in hospital, after the NIA counsel objected.
“If you think I said something, I take those words back,” said the judge after additional solicitor general Anil Singh, appearing for NIA, said, “After your lordship passed the comments…the agency’s morale is affected.”
Singh had sought two minutes at the end of the hearing in Swamy’s case to make “submissions unconnected with merits of the matter”. He said “any personal or private comment from the bench, especially in open court in a pending investigation, gets twisted… (especially) personal comment on work of accused”.