The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed former Chief Justice of Sikkim high court P D Dinakaran's plea challenging the Rajya Sabha-appointed committee's decision to frame charges against him by allegedly exceeding its jurisdiction.
A one-line notification issued by the High Court Registrar General Budhihal on Wednesday said that Justice Dinakaran will not be presiding over the bench till further orders. It was not immediately clear whether Justice Dinakaran has himself withdrawn from judicial duties or was directed to so.
Firing a fresh salvo against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, Justice D V Sylendra Kumar has asked him to refrain from discharging administrative functions, as impeachment proceedings against him over allegations of land grabbing was pending."This action is a very disturbing development. In my earnest and humble opinion, you should definitely desist from exercising even administrative function as the Chief Justice," he said.
In further trouble for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, a petition seeking impeachment proceedings against him was moved by as many as 76 Rajya Sabha members on Monday.
In a setback to Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to quash some of the charges framed against him by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel looking into allegations of corrupt practices and misconduct against him.
The Supreme Court collegium on Friday transferred Justice Dinakaran to Sikkim high court. On April 3, the collegium had asked the chief justice of Karnataka high court to go on leave. Dinakaran, 59, has not been performing judicial functions after Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari admitted a motion in December seeking his removal on charges of corruption, land-grab and abuse of the judicial office.
The Karnataka high court has struck down three circulars issued by its Chief Justice P D Dinakaran against whom allegations of land grabbing have been raised.
Chief Justice of India of India K G Balakrishnan on Monday reportedly agreed to examine the question of transferring Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who has been accused of land-grabbing, but said he has no power to relieve the judge of his judicial duties.
Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, whose elevation to the Supreme Court was halted, has been asked by the apex court collegium to go on leave. Sources said the decision was taken against Dinakaran, who has not been performing any judicial work since last December, as several representations were received that the judicial work of the high court has been hit. Sources said the collegium has also cleared the name of the acting chief justice of the Delhi HC.
'If the parliamentary committee's report does not find substantiated charges, the process ends.'
Justice Paul Daniel Dinakaran, facing impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha, was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court on Monday after his transfer to the Himalayan state following allegations of corruption.
The Centre on Monday said it has no role to play in the issue of impeachment process of Karnataka high court chief justice P D Dinakaran except notifying the committee constituted by the Rajya Sabha Chairman.
Karnataka high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran's elevation to the Supreme Court has been kept in abeyance in view of the impeachment proceedings against him in the Rajya Sabha over land grabbing allegations, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said on Friday.
Facing impeachment on charges of corruption and judicial misconduct, Sikkim high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran resigned on Friday from the post.
The Karnataka High Court on Monday approached the Supreme Court complaining against its own judge, Justice D V Shylendra Kumar, accusing him of 'berating' Chief Justice P D Dinakaran by using 'intemperate' language.
Dinakaran had alleged on Friday that Panneerselvam met him in July last year and wanted to meet him again in September-end this year in a bid to "oust" Chief Minister M Palaniswami. He also claimed that Panneerselvam offered to make him the chief minister.
SC keeps in abeyance a Delhi high court order on allotment of symbol.
Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has defended Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who is facing impeachment proceedings, saying the allegations against the CJ surfaced only after a proposal for his elevation to the Supreme Court.When queried on whether he thought that there was a vilifying campaign going on against Justice Dinakaran, the CJI said, "There was not a single allegation when he was a judge of the Madras high court."
A major controversy has erupted in Karnataka's legal fraternity after the Forum for Judicial Accountability leveled serious allegations against state Chief Justice P D Dinakaran.
The court granted the relief to the two saying they were no longer required for custodial interrogation and have been asked to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh each and two sureties of the like amount.
Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who has kept away from judicial work, ruled out resignation and termed the impeachment motion tabled against him in Rajya Sabha as "unfortunate" on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of the Rajya Sabha-appointed panel on Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran's allegations that the committee has exceeded its jurisdiction in probing charges of judicial misconduct and corruption against him.
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Monday said the Supreme Court collegium made a mistake in recommending the name of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran for appointment to the apex court and maintained that any judge found to have trespassed any land is not fit to be elevated.
The SC said if the high court does not dispose of the pending case regarding allocation of symbol within four weeks then the EC may proceed as per the March 9, 2018 order.
The Supreme Court collegium has decided to drop its recommendation for elevating Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing charges of land grabbing, to the apex court, bringing to end months of controversy over the move. The collegium led by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and including Justice S H Kapadia, Tarun Chatterjee, Altamas Kabir and R V Raveendran, met on Thursday evening and decided to take back the recommendation for his elevation.
Several Karnataka High Court lawyers protested on Monday against the continuance of Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing allegations of land grabbing, forcing him to suspend the proceedings and leave the hall.
Sixteen charges of corruption and irregularities have been slapped by a Rajya Sabha constituted panel against Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court Justice P D Dinkaran, who is facing impeachment proceedings in Parliament. The committee comprising Supreme Court Justice Aftab Alam, Karnataka High Court Justice K S Khehar and eminent jurist P P Roy issued the charge-sheet to Dinakaran on March 16 and has sought his response by April 9.
The court said there was no infirmity in the poll panel's decision to allot the AIADMK name and two leaves symbol to the faction headed by Palaniswami.
With more than 50 Rajya Sabha members favouring impeachment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, a petition in this regard is likely to be submitted to the House Chairman Mohammed Hamid Ansari early next week. A signature campaign is underway and more than 50 Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Left parties and Samajwadi Party, among others, are understood to have signed the petition, sources said.
The MLAs have been disqualified with effect from Monday, under the 1986 Tamil Nadu Assembly Members Party Defection Law.
The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has sought the services of government's technologically advanced surveying and mapping agency to verify allegations of land grabbing against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran whose elevation to the apex court has been put on hold.Meanwhile, the Advocates Association of Bangalore appealed to the Chief Justice of India.
The name of Karnataka high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who is facing allegations of land grabbing, has been "delinked" from four others who have been cleared for elevation as judges of the Supreme Court.
The Congress, on Monday, sought to disapprove the opposition move to impeach Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran saying it is not proper to air opinion on a matter which is under consideration of the apex court.
Justice Khehar, 64, will be the first Chief Justice from the Sikh community and he will succeed CJI Thakur who will be demitting office on January 3, 2017.
Vijayakanth was unwell for quite some time and his wife Premalatha took over the reins of the party days ago.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the interim orders of Karnataka High Court judge, Justice D V Shylendra Kumar, questioning the administrative decisions of Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who is facing corruption and land grab charges.
The notices were served under the anti-defection law.
Panneerselvam had opposed the petition saying the whip was issued only to the 122 MLAs who were then camping in a resort and not his erstwhile group.
In the keenly-awaited judgment, Chief Justice Indira Banerjee upheld the September 18 order of Tamil Nadu assembly Speaker P Dhanapal disqualifying the MLAs, while Justice M Sundar disagreed with her and struck it down.
The ED had filed six cases in the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offences Court-I) which had discharged the duo in two cases in 2015 and directed them to face the trial in other cases.
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