The explosive letter claimed that the Supreme Court judge was influencing the Andhra Pradesh High Court, and named the High court Chief Justice and four other judges.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, in an unprecedented move, has complained to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice SA Bobdeagainst a senior judge of the Supreme Court, considered ‘CJI-in-waiting’. Some several serious allegations against the judge have been raised by the Andhra CM in his letter, accusing the judge of acting on behalf of the opposition Telugu Desam Party and being very close to its chief and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu.
The named Supreme Court judge has not yet responded to the controversy.
CM Reddy, in an annexure to the letter to Chief Justice Bobde, has expressed “pain and anguish” that the “august institution of the high court is being used to destabilise and topple the democratically elected government”.
The explosive letter claimed that the Supreme Court judge was influencing the Andhra Pradesh High Court, and named the High court Chief Justice and four other judges.
The high court judges, who have been named, were rostered to handle the cases that were important for Chandrababu Naidu and the TDP, as per the allegations.
The Andhra CM, listing out cases and examples, shared documents claiming they were evidence of judgments in favour of the Telugu Desam leaders and which allegedly “obstructed the work of his own government, both in policy decisions and investigations initiated to expose alleged corruption during the time of Chandrababu Naidu as chief minister”.
The state government, in its letter to CJI, gives examples of what it has called a “judicial impropriety”. The CM has enlisted the case of a gag order on media reporting, stopping of investigation in a case involving alleged land deals in which a former advocate general and daughter of the supreme court judge are accused of wrong-doing.
The CJI has been asked by the Chief Minister to “consider initiating such steps as may be considered fit and proper to ensure that the state judiciary’s neutrality is maintained”.
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