VP Venkaiah Naidu rejects Opposition's impeachment plea against CJI Dipak Misra citing "technical" reasons

New Delhi: In a major blow to Opposition, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Monday rejected the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dipak Misra, citing “technical” reasons. As per VP Naidu, 7 of 71 signatures were by Members of Parliament (MPs) who have already retired. Seven political parties, including Congress on Saturday approached Rajya Sabha Chairman, seeking impeachment of CJI. This came a day after Supreme Court rejected CBI probe and formation of SIT in special Judge HC Loya’s death case. By rejecting opposition’s plea, SC held that Judge Loya died a natural death. The incident came months after four rebel Judges of the apex court held a press conference against the CJI, citing “partial allocation of cases” as reason.

What!! VP Naidu rejects impeachment motion against CJI signed by 64 RS MPs! On what grounds? He has no power to say that charges are not made out. That's for the inquiry committee of 3 judges. He only has to see if it's signed by >50 MPs & possibly if charges are of misbehaviour

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) April 23, 2018

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