New Delhi, July 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay impeachment proceedings against Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran.
It rejected Chief Justice Dinakaran's petition that said the impeachment proceedings against him for alleged corrupt practices and misconduct was motivated.
The court also ordered a change of the jurist member in the Rajya Sabha chairman appointed Inquiry Committee, which is probing charges against Dinakaran against whom a motion for removal is admitted in upper house of Parliament.
Senior advocate P P Rao will now be replaced with another jurist in the committee headed by a Supreme Court judge, Justice Aftab Alam. This could delay the process of removal of Chief Justice Dinakaran.
Chief Justice Dinakaran had challenged the proceedings on the ground that the panel had framed additional charges and was also independently conducting investigations and collecting material against him which, according to the judge, was not permissible under law. He has also sought recusal of senior counsel P P Rao.
The charges against the judge include land grabbing, accumulation of unaccounted assets, passing judicial order for extraneous considerations, following which his elevation to the Supreme Court was also stalled. (ANI)
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