Last fortnight, 120 INDIA bloc MPs signed an impeachment motion against Justice GR Swaminathan. This is not the first time the Madras High Court judge has run into controversy: allegations of political favoritism as well as caste and communal bias have dogged his career.
The INDIA bloc in the motion of December 9 alleged that Justice GR Swaminathan's conduct “raises serious questions regarding impartiality, transparency, and the secular functioning of the judiciary”.
The motion stated that Justice Swaminathan has shown “undue favouritism” toward advocates from a “particular community”, referring to allegations that he favoured lawyers from his own Brahmin caste.
It further alleged that he decides cases on the “basis of a particular political ideology”, alluding to his alleged leanings towards the Hindutva doctrine espoused by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its parent organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The judge did so, the motion claimed, in a manner “contrary to the secular principles of the Indian Constitution”.
However, advocates close to Swaminathan denied all charges and argued that the judge’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh membership has had no bearing on his work on the bench.
The impeachment move followed Justice Swaminathan’s December 2 order permitting the lighting of a lamp on a stone pillar near a dargah on Madurai’s Thiruparankundram Hill, claiming it is the...
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