Thursday 14 May 2015

Investigate Dattu


This is an email I received today from the Economic Times

Date: 12 May 2015 8:43:44 pm IST
To: justicekatju@gmail.com
Subject: Request-response required-Urgent

Sir,
1-The Economic Times is working on a story on Chief Justice of India
HL Dattu. I have been given to understand that a complaint regarding
assets of Justice Dattu and his wife was forwarded to you. May i
request you to share details of follow up action, if any, and your
views on the said complaint.

2-The complaint was signed by Pt Narendra Sharma, he had attached all
the relevant documents, and in August 2014, forwarded it to you for
necessary action.

I shall be extremely grateful, if you could forward your comments, on
the above mentioned issues, at the earliest
Regards
The Economic Times Delhi

Here is my reply :

From: mark_katju@yahoo.co.in
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:05
To: markandey katju

Dear Sir,

 I am in receipt of your email.

At present I am in Vancouver, and am likely to return to India in mid-July.

 I did indeed receive a dossier from someone containing documentary proof of a large amount of properties amassed by Justice Dattu during his judicial career. This was before he became CJI. I got several copies made of the dossier, and gave a copy each to Mr.Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court and his son Prashant, Dhananjaya Mahapatra of Times of India ( who came to my house to collect a copy, and with whom I had a detailed discussion about the matter ), and journalists of Indian Express and The Hindu. I also sent one copy to Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the then Union Law Minister. I suggest you ask some of these people for the dossier as they may be having their copy which I gave them. Regrettably, none of them did anything in the matter, although I only requested them to investigate because if the allegations in the dossier were correct Dattu should not be made the CJI

 I do not have a copy of the dossier with me at present, but I have it with me in my flat in Noida, which I can give you on my return. However, my recollection of the contents of the dossier, which I had read carefully, is as follows :

There are a large number of plots in or near Bangalore purchased in the name of Justice Dattu’s wife Gayathri. Photocopies of the sale deeds by which they were purchased are in the dossier. These sale deeds mention the name of Justice Dattu’s wife Gayathri, but interestingly enough describe her as daughter of Guravayoor ( probably her father’s name ), and not wife of Justice Dattu. This is strange, since the plots were purchased long after her marriage. Was this done to conceal these transactions ?

Most of these plots were purchased in violation of the provisions of the Karnatak Land Reforms Act, which state that a person having family income of over Rs. 2 lacs per year cannot buy land in the rural areas of Karnataka. At the time of purchase these plots were all technically in the rural area, though in reality they had become part of Bangalore as the city ( like all cities in India ) had expanded. Justice Dattu’s income at the time of purchase was over Rs. 15 lacs per year ( the approximate  salary of High Court Judges ), and so his wife illegally purchased these plots.

3. Justice Dattu has built a palatial house in Bangalore, allegedly on 1200 sq.m. land  Possibly that house itself would be worth Rs 50 crore or more. Someone sent me photos of that house by email, and I will try to retrieve them and send them to you.

One plot of land in Bangalore was allotted to Justice Dattu, though it could not have been allotted to him because under the relevant scheme such plots could only be allotted to an employee of the Karnataka High Court. A High Court Judge is not an employee ( he holds a Constitutional post, and is no one’s employee ). Justice Dattu was a Karnataka High Court Judge at that time.

One plot of land in Bangalore was allotted to Justice Dattu under a scheme which had a term that a person already having a plot of land in Bangalore could not be allotted a plot. Justice Dattu already had plots in Bamgalore, either in his own name or in his wife or children’s name at that time.

      Several other illegalities allegedly committed by Dattu ( which I do not remember at present ) were mentioned in the dossier, which consisted of about 100 pages, many being photocopies of sale deeds and other documents.

   On receiving the dossier I spoke on telephone to Mr. Shanti Bhushan, who sent his son Prashant to my house to collect a copy of the dossier. I had got several copies of the dossier made, and I gave one copy to Prashant when he came to my house, and also discussed the allegations therein.The next day Mr. Shanti Bhushan telephoned me and said the allegations against Dattu in the dossier were very serious. I then told him that in that case the Committee on Judicial Accountability ( COJA ), which consists of senior lawyers of the Supreme Court as well as retired Judges, and of which he and Prashant are members, should hold an enquiry, and at the same time write to the President and Prime Minister not to make Dattu a substantive CJI but only Acting CJI until the enquiry was over.  If the allegations in the dossier were found false then he could be confirmed as CJI. However,  regrettably, nothing was done by Mr. Shanti Bhushan or the others to whom I had sent copies of the dossier.

  I may before concluding add that I have no personal grudge against Dattu, and my only motive in doing what I did was to have upright people on top posts in the judiciary. I only wanted an enquiry into the allegations in the dossier, and I did not say that the allegations were necessarily correct ( though the documentary proof in the dossier does indicate serious illegalities ). But people, including journalists to whom I gave copies of the dossier, were not even willing to investigate. is the media scared ?
  Justice Katju

18 comments:

  1. When those who obtained the dossiers from you had no intention of acting on them, for whatever reason, should not have obtained them from you.

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    1. saya ibu lilis posisi sekarang di malaysia
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      saya ibu lilis posisi sekarang di malaysia
      bekerja sebagai pembantu gaji tidak seberapa
      setiap gajian selalu mengirimkan orang tua
      sebenarnya pengen pulang tapi gak punya uang
      sempat saya putus asah dan secara kebetulan
      saya buka internet ada seseorng berkomentar
      tentang MBAH LIMPAH katanya perna di bantu
      melalui jalan togel saya coba2 menghubungi
      karna di malaysia ada pemasangan
      jadi saya memberanikan diri karna sudah bingun
      saya minta angka sama MBAH LIMPAH
      angka yang di berikan 6D TOTO tembus 100%
      terima kasih banyak MBAH
      kemarin saya bingun syukur sekarang sudah senang
      dan rencana mau pulang ke indo untuk buka usaha
      bagi penggemar togel ingin merasakan kemenangan
      terutama yang punya masalah hutang lama belum lunas
      jangan putus asah HUBUNGI MBAH LIMPAH
      DI NO: 085~312~407~999
      tak ada salahnya anda coba
      karna angka ritual MBAH tidak perna meleset
      saya jamin MBAH LIMPAH tidak akan mengecewakan..

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    2. Assalamualaikum wr.wb,saya BPK.KARTA seorang buruh tani di madium jawa timur ingin mengucapka banyak terimah kasih kepada KI WARSA atas bantuan AKI. kini impian saya selama ini sudah jadi kenyataan dan berkat bantuan KI WARSA pula yang telah memberikan angka gaib hasil ritual beliau kepada saya yaitu 4D dan alhamdulillah telah berhasil memenangkan 5x berturut turut tembus.sekali lagi makasih yaa AKI karna waktu itu saya cuma bermodalkan uang cuma 200 ribu dan akhirnya saya menang.Berkat angka gaib hasil ritual AKI WARSA saya sudah buka usaha matreal di jakarta dan istri saya juga buka butyk baju dimall mangga dua. Kini kehidupan keluarga saya jauh lebih baik dari sebelumnya,bagi anda yg ingin seperti saya silahkan HUB/SMS AKI WARSA di nomor hpnya di: 0852 4968 9269 atau KLIK DISINI dan ramalan AKI WARSA memang memiliki ramalan GAIB” yang dijamin 100% tembus.
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  2. Mr. Katju sir, Hats off to your consistent upright and courageous and ever willing stature in responding to the public at large....though on certain matters your views are undesirable/controversial. The public of this country (especially youth) knows little about the flaws in the judiciary, if they continue to be suppressed for longer, it can lead to evolution of dictator in india sooner or later, which would not be good for indian democracy. The first step of solution to this problem is more and more transparency on judicial matters is needed.

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    1. Can a lilliputian take great strides of a giant? Justice Katju, to my mind, is the epitome of courage of conviction,TRUE PATRIOTISM AND RATIONALITY.

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  3. Assalamualaikum wr.wb,
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  4. Why d comments of Nisha Bhatia hv bn deleted ?????????

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  5. Why d comments of Nisha Bhatia hv bn deleted ?????????

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  6. Moreover, it is now a known fact that media is doing everything for its TRP only. Sometimes the discussed topic during primetime is so irrelevant that I rather switch off TV.

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  7. Moreover, it is now a known fact that media is doing everything for its TRP only. Sometimes the discussed topic during primetime is so irrelevant that I rather switch off TV.

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  8. Its a serious concern and should be invetigated by a joint team comprising some retired Justices of the Apex Court, present Judges of the Apex court, sr. Lawyers, Chief of CVC, Chief of CBI and others. With mimmediate effect he should stay away or be kept away from his official work.

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  9. Sirji, I have earlier also requested you for a link to the said documents showing Mr Dattu's assets. These are the documents you want journalists to examine. Will you please give us the URL where they are uploaded, so that we can share them widely?

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  10. Krishnaraj Rao Ji ..please do not give up this issue . It is a very serious one and we must know the truth..
    regards
    Sridharan
    Fremont
    California

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  11. Very true, it is a very serious n a dangerous matter but will any body investigate it.

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  13. Its painful to know the corruption in our judiciary system. Matter should be investigate.

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  14. what a tragedy....when now Dattu is the CJI and several tender cases are in his hands and what will happen to them? many cases would have been strangled .....poor Mother India....

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