Soumitra Sen to face impeachment motion

In Rajya Sabha on March 14

GN Bureau | February 23, 2011



The Rajya Sabha is slated to take up an impeachment motion on March 14 for three days. This is against the Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen who will be the second judge in independent India to face such a motion for alleged misconduct in misappropriating Rs 42 lakh. The misappropriation took place when he, as a lawyer, had been appointed a receiver by a court of law.

There are ten senior advocates in the Rajya Sabha from various political parties who are keen to speak on this motion. This will be an embarrassing moment for UPA II as these lawyers are bound to bring up corruption in judiciary, in one form or the other.

Vice president and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari has admitted a motion for impeachment of justice Sen after a three-member committee headed by the sitting supreme court judge, justice B Sudarshan Reddy, found him guilty of misconduct. Other members of the panel were former Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Mukul  Mudgal and leading jurist F S Nariman.

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