Pul’s wife withdraws letter to CJI Khehar
GUWAHATI: The first wife of former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Kalikho Pul, who committed suicide on August 9 last year, on Thursday withdrew her two-page letter to Chief Justice of India JS Khehar seeking the Supreme Court’s help in ensuring CBI probe into the circumstance that led to her husband’s death.
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear Dangwimsai Pul’s petition on Thursday.
On February 17, Dangwimsai had in her letter said Pul’s 60-page suicide note should be considered by the apex court as “dying declaration and treated very seriously as evidence”.
But on Thursday, she said the Supreme Court need not act on her letter as it should have been dealt with by the local administration. Dangwimsai had cited her husband’s note to allege corruption by politicians and members of the judiciary.
Senior counsel Dushyant Dave, representing her, said she might approach vice-president Hamid Ansari for looking into the matter as President Pranab Mukherjee finds mention in her husband’s note.
A bench of justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and justice Uday Umesh Lalit allowed Dangwimsai to withdraw her letter, as her
KALIKHOPULWAS FOUND DEAD ON AUGUST 9, 2016. HE LEFT BEHIND A NOTE, ACCUSING SEVERAL POLITICIANS AND SC JUDGES OF SEEKING BRIBE
counsel said they should recuse from hearing the matter as it cannot be heard on the judicial side.
Dave wanted to know on whose instructions the court registry had listed the letter for hearing before the bench when it was meant to be dealt with on the administrative side.
He said while a seven-judge bench is hearing the case of Kolkata high court’s justice CS Karnan, the instant case that names certain judicial functionaries was listed before a twojudge bench.
Earlier, seeking a CBI probe into the case, Dangwimsai said the Arunachal Pradesh government was not interested in probing Pul’s death.Kalikho Pul was found dead on August 9, 2016, at his official residence in Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar.
He left behind a 60-page note in which he accused several top politicians and Supreme Court judges of seeking bribe.