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Plea in SC seeks action against Mamata
Thursday August 16, 2012 11:39:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A petition
was moved in the Supreme Court Thursday seeking the initiation of
contempt of court proceedings against West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee for her allegations of corruption in judiciary.
Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party chairman Bhim Singh
urged the apex court to initiate contempt proceedings against
Banerjee or take any other legal action.
The petition said that the words spoken by the chief Minister
amounted to "scandalising" the judiciary which had "lowered the
authority of the judiciary as a whole".
Bhim Singh said that Banarjee should be hauled up for the contempt
of court within the meaning and scope of Article 129 of the
constitution.
The petition also sought direction to the central government to
make available the entire record of the speeches of Banerjee on
alleged corruption in judiciary.
Speaking on the occasion of the state assembly's platinum jubilee
celebrations Tuesday, Banerjee alleged corruption among a section
of the judiciary.
Her comment on the judiciary came a day after the state human
rights commission slapped a Rs.50,000 fine on police for arresting
a Jadavpur University professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, in April for
circulating e-mails containing cartoons on the chief minister and
other Trinamool Congress leaders.
The chief minister's allegations drew criticism from all quarters,
including lawyers and former judges.
The petition said that Banarjee used "highly undesirable,
unhealthy and contemptuous language against the judiciary which
deserves the attention of the highest court of the country".
Bhim Singh sought appropriate steps to "uphold the sanctity and
credibility of the judiciary".
The petition said that allegation against the judiciary by
Banerjee became serious as she was a popular leader.
"The judiciary is the most important pillar of democracy, rather
the entire democracy and constitutional proprietary rests on the
foundation of the judiciary. The judiciary is not an individual
but the soul of democracy," the petition said.
The "parliamentary system in India is passing through a serious
crisis...corruption in political society" was like cancer and this
democracy must survive in the interest of world democracies, the
petition said.
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