Final preparations for the impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta High Court on charges of corruption got underway with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan setting up a three-member judicial team to draft the chargesheet against him.
An attempt to force the names of misbehaving judges into the open will be launched tomorrow in a groundbreaking freedom of information case.
The Chief Justice of Delhi, Justice A. P. Shah, in his capacity as the Competent Authority at the Delhi High Court is to be complimented for modifying the Right to Information rules at the High Court to be in tune with the RTI Act, 2005.
While recommending the impeachment of Calcutta HC judge Soumitra Sen on the basis of an in-house probe, CJI K G Balakrishnan admitted in his letter to the Prime Minister last year that the affected judge had made a "detailed representation" seeking reconsideration of the decision.
The law ministry has found nothing wrong with the credentials of four lawyers whose competency and conduct Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had questioned after their names were recommended for appointment as judges of Calcutta High Court.