New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan is under pressure after Supreme Court judge HL Gokhale claimed that Balakrishnan was aware that former telecom minister A Raja tried to influence a judge in a criminal case.
Now senior advocate Prashant Bhushan has targeted Balakrishnan saying he should step down as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission on moral grounds.
"Balakrishnan lied to save Raja. He should be removed as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission," said Bhushan in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Gokhale, who was earlier the chief justice of Madras High Court, on Tuesday claimed that he had forwarded a letter by justice R Raghupathy of Madras High Court to Balakrishnan when he was the Chief Justice of India. In the letter, written in 2009, justice Raghupathy claimed that Chairman of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, K Chandramohan, who is reportedly a friend of Raja, tried to influence him in a criminal case involving a father-son duo who was accused of fudging a medical exam mark sheet.
But Balakrishnan has been maintaining that he never got a letter from justice Raghupathy.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said that the war within the judiciary was very shocking.
"Justice Raghupathy's letter is very shocking. It gives a very wrong message to the people of the country about judiciary," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar.
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