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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
ATTORNEY GENERAL K K Venugopal has declined letter of invitation to rethink his call refusing consent to initiate contempt proceedings against province Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and his Principal consultant Ajeya Kallam over Reddy’s letter to justice of Asian country S A Bobde levelling numerous allegations against Supreme Court Justice N V Ramana and AP tribunal judges.
Venugopal aforesaid, however, that it’s “open to the Supreme Court to require up the matter of contempt suo motu as provided by the Contempt of Courts Act” since “the terribly crux of the alleged contempt lies within the contents of the letter written by” Reddy to the CJI.
The silver sent his call during a letter sent Sabbatum to Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay UN agency had sought-after the consent. “Given that the justice of Asian country is appropriated of the matter, it might not be acceptable on behalf of me to grant consent and preclude the determination of the justice of Asian country on the matter,” the silver wrote.
He conjointly aforesaid within the letter that “contempt may be a matter between Court and conternnor, and not everybody as of right will insist upon the initiation of contempt proceedings”.
Venugopal aforesaid as lawyer General, he’s “required to exercise statutorily presented discretion not solely to see whether or not explicit statements or conduct would be clear insubordinate, however conjointly on examine if it might be in larger public interest to put the matter found insubordinate before the Supreme Court by method of a contempt petition”.
The silver aforesaid he had watched the video of the group discussion by Kallam on Oct ten, once the letter was free to the media. “I notice that nothing additional was aforesaid apart from what was already there within the letter, that was addressed to the justice. The letter free to the press and closed in in your original request for consent was so the topic matter of the contempt. Nowhere, is that the letter… marked confidential. In different words, the letter can’t be delineate as a non-public letter. it absolutely was wide being reportable by the press,” he said.
Venugopal aforesaid that “hence there’s no reason on behalf of me to alter my mind”. however the silver wrote that his rejection “does not preclude” Upadhyay “from delivery these facts to the notice of” the Supreme Court “with a prayer for initiation of suo motu action”.
Upadhyay had earlier approached the silver seeking permission to initiate contempt, stating that Reddy’s Oct half-dozen letter and its future unleash to the media by Kallam “scandalise the authority of the Supreme Court and also the tribunal also as busy with the course of judicial proceedings and also the administration of justice”.
The silver had turned down Upadhyay’s request on November 2 following that the attorney had submitted a recent request. In 2016, the attorney had filed a PIL seeking the fixing of special courts to make a decision cases involving legislators inside one year and debar those condemned from contesting elections forever.
Hearing this petition on Gregorian calendar month sixteen, a bench headed by Justice Ramana had asked tribunal Chief Justices to represent a special bench to observe the progress of trial of criminal cases against sitting and former legislators and to “forthwith” list all such cases that are keeped and judge whether or not the stay ought to continue or not.
It was when this order that proceedings during a disproportionate assets case against Reddy resumed during a CBI Special Court in Hyderabad on Oct nine. consequent day, Kallam created public the Chief Minister’s letter to the CJI.
