NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India RM Lodha has hit out at Narendra Modi government for rejecting the candidature of former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium as SC judge.
“The first thing I had taken objection to was the segregation of Gopal Subramanium’s file unilaterally by the executive. It is not proper,” he said at a function here breaking his silence on the controversy that struck the new government within a month of its coming to power.
Justice Lodha asserted that independence of judiciary was of utmost importance to him and told the lawyers at the function that “don’t get the impression that independence of judiciary was compromised”.
“I promise 1.2 billion people of India that independence of judiciary will not be compromised,” he said adding “I will be the first person to leave this chair if judiciary’s independence is compromised”.
He was speaking at a function to bid farewell to Justice BS Chauhan who demitted office today on attaining the age of superannuation
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