02-13-2004, 09:58 PM
The other side of the warrant-against-prez-Kalam story..
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...493506.cms
'Scribes shouldn't play truant with court'
PTI[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2004 12:30:34 AM ]
NEW DELHI: The Ahmedabad magistrate who had issued warrants against the President, Chief Justice of India and other VIPs, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court said he had passed the orders after following due judicial process but accused the journalist who conducted the sting operation of "playing truant" with the judiciary.
"It was inconceivable for the deponent (the magistrate) that any person could even have the temerity to name the VVIPs in any criminal complaint, especially a case such as this, and much less be able to describe them as businessmen," magistrate Mahendra Sombhai Brahmbhatt said in his affidavit.
Referring to the manner in which the names were described in the complaint, he said TV journalist Vijay Shekhar was trying to deceive the court and appealed to the apex court to revoke the order of his suspension passed by the Gujarat HC.
The name of President APJ Abdul Kalam was mentioned as Abdulfakir Jainul Abidil and that of CJI VN Khare as Vishwanath Khare. One of the judges of the apex court, BP Singh, was named as Bishveswar Prasad Singh and Supreme Court Bar Association former president RK Jain as Rajendrakumar Jain.
The complainant was duly identified by the advocates appearing on his behalf, the magistrate said, and added, "In such circumstances, it was not possible for any reasonable person to conclude that the said accused persons are not businessmen but are, in reality, the President of India, judges of the Supreme Court and senior advocate RK Jain".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...493506.cms
'Scribes shouldn't play truant with court'
PTI[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2004 12:30:34 AM ]
NEW DELHI: The Ahmedabad magistrate who had issued warrants against the President, Chief Justice of India and other VIPs, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court said he had passed the orders after following due judicial process but accused the journalist who conducted the sting operation of "playing truant" with the judiciary.
"It was inconceivable for the deponent (the magistrate) that any person could even have the temerity to name the VVIPs in any criminal complaint, especially a case such as this, and much less be able to describe them as businessmen," magistrate Mahendra Sombhai Brahmbhatt said in his affidavit.
Referring to the manner in which the names were described in the complaint, he said TV journalist Vijay Shekhar was trying to deceive the court and appealed to the apex court to revoke the order of his suspension passed by the Gujarat HC.
The name of President APJ Abdul Kalam was mentioned as Abdulfakir Jainul Abidil and that of CJI VN Khare as Vishwanath Khare. One of the judges of the apex court, BP Singh, was named as Bishveswar Prasad Singh and Supreme Court Bar Association former president RK Jain as Rajendrakumar Jain.
The complainant was duly identified by the advocates appearing on his behalf, the magistrate said, and added, "In such circumstances, it was not possible for any reasonable person to conclude that the said accused persons are not businessmen but are, in reality, the President of India, judges of the Supreme Court and senior advocate RK Jain".