New Delhi: The SC Collegium has transfered tainted Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran to the Sikkim High Court. Dinakaran was asked to go on leave by the collegium early this week. But the justice defied the collegium's advisory to go on leave.
Sources say he was asked to go on leave as judicial work of the Karnataka High Court has been hit since he was not performing judicial work.
The collegium has also cleared the name of the acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Justice Madan B Lokur to be the next Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Dinakaran was not performing judicial functions after Rajya Sabha admitted a motion seeking his removal on charges of corruption, land-grab. About 76 members of Rajya Sabha have represented for launching impeachment proceedings.
Justice Dinakaran was not discharging judicial functions since December last. However, he was continuing to discharge administrative functions as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.
A three-member committee headed by sitting Justice V S Sirpurkar of the apex court is already enquiring into the allegations of land grabbing. Following the allegations, elevation of Justice Dinakaran to the Supreme Court was put on hold.
The committee was appiointed by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari following representation made by its 76 members for impeachment of Justice Dinakaran.
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