Govt rejects SC collegium`s move to elevate Dinakaran

New Delhi, Dec 5 (PTI) Ending weeks of uncertainty,
Indian Government has rejected the Supreme Court collegium's
move to elevate to the apex court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran
of Karnataka High Court in south India in the wake of
allegations of land grabbing against him and his family.
Sources in the Indian Law Ministry said that the file
recommending the elevation has been returned to the Chief
Justice of India K G Balakrishnan with a request to the
collegium to reconsider the decision.
Balakrishnan had written to the Law Ministry seeking
delinking of the name of Dinakaran from a list of High Court
Chief Justices, recommended for elevation to Supreme Court of
India.
Sources claim that the Law Ministry's decision to
return the file came after it found that various probes
including those conducted by the Intelligence Bureau and
District Collector of Tiruvallur were enough to deny Dinakaran
elevation to the Supreme Court.
Government felt that there was no need for any more
probe into the issue as requested by the Chief Justice.
A report by Survey of India is yet to be forwarded to
the SC Collegium, the sources said.
Dinakaran is facing allegations of land grabbing in
Kaverirajapuram in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu in south
India, a charged denied by him.
It is learnt that the Prime Minister's Office had also
referred to the law ministry the media campaign on the issue.
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