"Eight former CJIs were corrupt"

Shanti Bhushan delivers a sealed cover to the apex court naming the corrupt ones

GN Bureau | September 16, 2010




Eminent lawyer and former law minister Shanti Bhushan submitted a list of 16 former chief justices of India (CJIs) in a sealed cover in the supreme court today claiming that “eight (of them) were definitely corrupt, six were definitely honest and about the remaining two, a definite opinion cannot be expressed whether they were honest or corrupt”.

This was in connection with a contempt proceedings initiated against his son and senior advocate Prashant Bushan for levelling charges of corruption against apex court judges in an interview with Tehelka magazine.

The list includes those who became CJI between 25 September 1990 and 14 January 2007. While daring the court to send him to jail for contempt, Shanti Bhushan, who was law minister in the Morarji Desai government, explained his motive by saying, “That unless the level of corruption in the judiciary is exposed and brought in the public domain, the institutions of governance cannot be activated to take effective measures to eliminate this evil”.
 

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