NEW DELHI: AFTER taking on the Chief Justice of India and Supreme Court collegium for “blissfully remaining insensitive to public opinion/reaction”, Karnataka High Court Judge DV Shylendra Kumar has opened up once again, this time blasting the higher judiciary for refusing to be accountable to anyone and also for “phenomenon of tyrannical and abusive exercise of power for punishing people for contempt”.
Delivering endowment lecture at SDM Law College, Mangalore on Saturday, Kumar said punishment awarded to author Arundhati Roy for contempt of court "will remain as a black spot in the judicial history of this country forever". "I am of the personal opinion that the day when Supreme Court punished Ms Arundhati Roy for contempt and sentenced her to undergo a day's imprisonment and sent her to Tihar Jail in the case, was the darkest day in the history of the Indian judiciary. I, as a judge, through this expression, offer my personal regret and apology to Ms Arundhati Roy for judicial tyranny let loose on her by the most improper use of power to punish a person for committing contempt of court," he said. In his address, Kumar also said he was of opinion that power to punish people who commitcontempt of court proceedings and orders was a"very drastic power without even reasonable safeguards, but more disturbingly without adequate remedial measures at all".
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(source-MSN News)
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