The documents are there and they bear out the sequence of events. It is not a matter of inference. The documents speak for themselves and these are all government documents.

a group of eminent citizens called a press conference in Delhi. They had an explosive story to share. A story that impacted thousands. A story that raised questions about judicial accountability few ever dare to raise.

Much as it’s desirable to find ever new ways of empowering citizens, law minister H R Bharadwaj seems to have gone overboard in introducing a Bill that equates a single citizen, however inadvertently, with 50 MPs from Rajya Sabha or 100 from Lok Sabha.

Apologise, SC tells journalist; Jly 26, 2007

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have asked law minister H R Bharadwaj not to desist from giving the executive's inputs on judicial appointments recommended by collegiums — the panels of senior judges of high courts and Supreme Court.