Delhi: Two Congress Parliamentarians on Monday moved Supreme Court against the rejection of impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.
Two Rajya Sabha MPs who have approached the apex court are — Pratap Singh Bajwa and Amee Harshadray Yajnik.
The MPs have claimed in their petition that once the initiation of removal motion is signed by the requisite number of MPs, the Vice-President has no option but shall constitute an Inquiry Committee to investigate the allegations against the CJI Dipak Misra.
“The rejection seems to be motivated by political consideration beyond the constitutional scheme which is buttressed by the fact that one of the charges against the Chief Justice is that he has been partial in assigning political sensitive cases pertaining to the ruling party before particular benches of this Hon’ble Court in order to get a predetermined outcome,” reported News-18 citing the petition.
On April 24th, Naidu who rejected the unprecedented impeachment notice given by opposition parties led by the Congress defended the step saying that the rejection came after over a month of ‘due diligence’.
Naidu had rejected the impeachment notice saying it lacked substantial merit and that the allegations were neither “tenable nor admissible”