🧵 Thread on Supreme Court's Justice Hemant Gupta who upheld the Karnataka HC order of #hijab ban in educational institutions.
The CJAR had in 2017 accused Justice Hemant Gupta of having the backing of the ruling government as he “comes from an influential RSS background”. (1/n)
The CJAR had in 2017 accused Justice Hemant Gupta of having the backing of the ruling government as he “comes from an influential RSS background”. (1/n)
Justice Gupta was also accused of money laundering, acquiring assets through illegal means, possessing disproportionate assets, and seeking to influence the ED officer who was investigating these charges. (2/n)
From the link given below you can download the letter written by CJAR to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on 3 March 2017 along with Annexures for constituting an 'in-house inquiry' into the allegations against Hemant Gupta. (3/n)
web.archive.org/web/2018100417…
web.archive.org/web/2018100417…
Along with potential evidences of various allegations, the annexure contains record conversation between J. Hemant Gupta and the ED officer, in which he allegedly asked ED officer to meet & talk about probe into firm linked to his wife, and thereby tried to influence him. (4/n)
Hemant Gupta took oath as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 18 March 2017. Without any inquiry, He was promoted from a Patna High Court judge to the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh HC. (5/n)
Later in July 2017, Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) convenor @pbhushan1 had issued a press note regarding inaction of CJI on their complaint against Justice Hemant Gupta. Read that press note from the archive link given below. (6/n)
web.archive.org/web/2017071408…
web.archive.org/web/2017071408…
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