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| Justice KM Joseph, reportedly suffers from a heart condition, and has been having a bad run with his health as Nainital is at a height of 6000 ft. |
May 6, 2016, NewsCrunch
The abrupt transfer of Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph was due to his ill health not politics.
The revelation comes from Former Supreme Court justice Markandey Katju , who did a serious piece of reporting, speaking to three sources independently of each other - a Supreme Court judge, a judge of the Uttarkhand High Court and a senior lawyer close to Justice KM Joseph.
In his blog, Katju wrote: "The transfer was not because of some judicial order he passed. It was because of health reasons."
Justice KM Joseph, reportedly suffers from a heart condition, and has been having a bad run with his health as Nainital is at a height of 6000 ft.
Senior lawyer Indira Jaising and Delhi CM Kejriwal had questioned the timing of the transfer and expressed concern over the independence of the judiciary. They had implied that Justice KM Joseph had been transferred under the pressure from the Modi government which was not happy with his judgement.
Katju also stated that the controversial transfer of another High Court judge Justice Shakdher was also fair.
He had been shifted by the Supreme Court collegium with the concurrence of three senior lawyers, Fali Nariman, K.K. Venugopal and P P Rao, in his own interest, stated Katju, without disclosing the actual reason.