Lawyer requests SG Mehta s consent theuknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theuknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lawyer requests SG Mehta s consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Justice Katju ANI | Updated: Apr 03, 2021 16:32 IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): A lawyer has written a letter to the Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta and requested his consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against former Supreme Court judge, Justice (retired) Markandey Katju for his extremely contemptuous remarks made in fugitive Nirav Modi extradition case.
Lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, had written the letter to the SG Mehta, after the Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal, had, on March 30, recused himself from allowing his permission to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Justice (retd) Katju. He, however, advised Srivastava, to approach the SG for the same.
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AG Didn t Consent to Contempt Proceedings Against Ranjan Gogoi, But What He Said Needs Revisiting
The interview that the former chief justice gave at the India Today conclave on February 12 is full of inconsistencies.
Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. Photo: PTI
Law28/Feb/2021
The Attorney General for India, K.K.Venugopal, has declined his consent to initiate proceedings for criminal contempt against the nominated member of Rajya Sabha, Ranjan Gogoi, for the interview he gave at the India Today conclave on February 12. But that should not deter us from critically analysing Gogoiâs interview and Venugopalâs defence of it for their inconsistencies.
Justice Katju s expert opinion is less than objective: UK Court on Nirav Modi s Extradition
The UK Westminster Court said that Justice Katju had deposed before it as an expert witness for Nirav Modi, opposing the Government of India’s plea for extradition on the ground that he was unlikely to receive a “free and fair trial in India”.
| 27 Feb 2021 2:27 AM GMT
LONDON: Even as the UK s West Minister s Magistrate Court on Thursday cleared the decks for the extradition of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi in connection with the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, District Judge Samuel Gooze came down heavily on former Supreme Court Judge Markandey Katju, saying Gooze attached little weight to Katju s expert opinion as it was less than objective and reliable .