AMIT SHAH’S JUDGEMENT UNFORTUNATE??

By Anshika Khera

Amit Shah accused the INDIA bloc’s vice-presidential nominee B Sudershan Reddy, a former judge of the Supreme Court, of supporting Naxalism. The group of retired judges has termed Home Minister Amit Shah’s attack on opposition vice-presidential candidate B Sudershan Reddy over the Salwa Judum judgement unfortunate, and said it would be wise to refrain from name-calling.

The group of 18 retired judges, including the likes of former Supreme Court justices Kurien Joseph, Madan B Lokur and J Chelameswar, also said that prejudicial misinterpretation of the top court’s verdict by a high political functionary is likely to have a chilling effect on its judges.

Amit Shah had claimed that Left Wing Extremism would have ended by 2020 in the absence of the Salwa Judum judgement . “ The statement of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, publicly misinterpreting the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Salwa Judum case, is unfortunate. The judgment nowhere supports, either expressly or by compelling implication of its text, Naxalism or its ideology,” the statement signed by the 18 former judges said.

The statement was signed by the following former Supreme Court judges : A K Patnaik, Abhay Oka, Gopala Gowda, Vikramjit Sen, Kurien Joseph, Madan B Lokur, and J Chelameswar.