New Delhi: Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh on Wednesday called the complaint filed against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan led Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) "an attempt to scandalise the judiciary"
Singh also asked CJAR to be charged with criminal contempt for filing such a petition.
"I was the counsel for MCI in Prasad Education Trust matter. There was no wrong doing by the SC while dealing with the matter,” he said.
“On September 18 there were 10 matters of medical colleges listed before the court presided by CJI, and in all five matters similar orders were passed," he added.
This came in response to a part of the complaint by CJAR had alleged that CJI might not have dictated the orders in open court but only have done that after the registration of the FIR.
Page 9 of the complaint suggested that there was a "question mark on whether indeed the order was dictated in open court that day or whether it was kept pending and dictated after the registration of FIR and the media reporting".
Singh has further claimed that all the five orders by the CJI on that date has been uploaded on the Supreme Court website and that that it can be testified by the advocate on record who appeared on behalf of Medical Counsel of India that day.
"The complaint matter is complete falsehood as similar orders were passed in all the five matters by the CJI in which Justices Khanwilkar and Chandrachud were also a part. The complaint by CJAR is an attempt to scandalize the judiciary and hence the complainant needs to be charged with criminal contempt," he said.
Bhushan on Tuesday filed a complaint on behalf of CJAR against Misra, alleging that he stopped the CBI from filing an FIR against a sitting High Court Judge in the medical college bribery scam case.
Bhushan said, "CJI refused to give such a permission to CBI and as per a SC verdict, a sitting HC judge cannot have a FIR registered against him without the permission of the CJI."
CJAR's complaint primarily derives basis from the transcripts of phone conversations involving three people in the controversial medical college bribery scam – retired Orissa high Court Judge IM Qudussi, middleman Vishwanath Agarwala and BP Yadav of the Prasad Education Trust – showing that college officials had planned to bribe senior functionaries of the Supreme Court and Allahabad high court to get favourable orders.
Dismissing the admissibility of such taped conversations, Singh said these "middlemen conversations" cannot be the basis to file a complaint against the CJI.
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