Justice Katju moves SC against parl’s resolution

Justice Markandey Katju, former Apex Court judge, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of resolutions passed against him by both Houses of Parliament for calling <g data-gr-id="14">Mahatama</g> Gandhi and Subhash C Bose as British and Japanese “agents” respectively.

The former judge, in his Facebook post, alleged that both Houses of Parliament condemned him for his statements “calling Gandhi a British agent, and Subhas Chandra Bose a Japanese agent” without even giving him a hearing.

A former chairperson of the Press Council of India, Justice Katju, who also annexed the copy of his petition with his facebook post, has sought quashing of resolutions passed against him by Lok Sabha on March 12 and Rajya Sabha on March 11. Alternatively, he has sought a direction to Lok Sabha Speaker and Chairman of Upper House that he be heard personally or through his duly designated lawyer(s). “It is a basic principle of natural justice that no one should be condemned unheard. 

But paying scant regard to this principle, the <g data-gr-id="19">Hon’ble</g> members of both Houses of the Indian Parliament all flocked together with one voice to condemn me, like the Queen of Hearts in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ who would say ‘Off with his head! ‘ even before she would give a hearing to someone..,” Justice Katju wrote in his post.