“We wish to know whether the matter was referred to a Constitution bench on the basis of an administrative or a judicial order. I don’t know on what grounds it has been referred to a Constitution bench,” he said. Meanwhile, finance minister Arun Jaitley, in an article released by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, called the impeachment motion “wholly misconceived”. Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu Naidu on 23 April rejected the impeachment motion moved by Congress-led opposition parties on 20 April, holding that it lacked substantial merit. Section 124(4) of the Constitution outlines the process of impeachment of the CJI on the ground of “proven misbehaviour or incapacity”.

Source: Mint May 08, 2018 07:41 UTC