Chairman’s decision illegal, will move SC, says Sibal
new delhi — Attacking the rejection of the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dipak Misra as “illegal, wrong and unconstitutional”, Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Monday said the opposition members who had signed the motion will move the Supreme Court challenging the decision of Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu.
Addressing a Press conference after Naidu came out with a 10page order rejecting the notice of motion signed by 64 MPs, he said it was unprecedented that the motion has been rejected even before it was admitted.
Sibal also hoped that the Chief Justice would keep out of hearing the challenge petition.
“We will certainly move the petition in the Supreme Court to challenge this order. We are confident that when we move the Supreme Court, he has nothing to do with it so that it is heard and the serious issues which are constitutional in nature in which we determine whether we will bring transparency to the process of law will be decided by the court.”
The former Union Law Minister, one of the signatories to the motion, accused the Chairman of being in “tearing hurry” in deciding on the issue. “What was the tearing hurry? If a motion is moved by signature of 64 MPs, which he admits, the whole petition, documentation, the excerpts of conversation and other things obviously it takes time for any normal person... Even as an experienced lawyer, I must say it that it takes me time to understand because I am not a super human. Before we argue a case, it takes days of consultation to consult the law and you read the facts to digest the facts and it takes some time.
“Obviously there was some tearing hurry. I don’t think momentous matters like this should be disposed of in this fashion. Remember as MPs it is our privilege to move the motion. You can’t boot the privilege motion in this fashion.” —