Evil eye haunts aged ex-AP judge

The jinx of former judge Kanagaraj seems to be neverending. The septuagenarian was in the news some time ago when the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government hurriedly appointed him as state election commissioner to settle scores with then incumbent N. Ramesh Kumar.

The matter went up to the Supreme Court which finally settled it by removing

Justice Kanagaraj and restoring Ramesh Kumar.

A year or so later, the government appointed Justice Kanagaraj as chairman of the state police complaints authority, relaxing rules framed by it. The rules say the maximum permissible age for the post of chairman is 65 years but the government appointed 78year-old Kanagaraj and needless to say the matter landed in the Andhra Pradesh High Court which suspended his appointment.

The episode once again left the legal luminary in an awkward position besides exposing the “sab chalta hai” attitude of the most influential bureaucrat in the Chief Minister’s Office.

“We will, for sure, find another person to head the authority but we relaxed rules to compensate Kanagaraj which obviously came under the legal scrutiny,” sources said adding that it was high time the babudom got rid of “we-can-do-anything-we-want” attitude.