The polls could not be held due to political turmoil in Assam the party gave him a Rajya Sabha seat. He cleared Bihar CM Jagannath Misra of forgery charges, and soon quit the bench for a Congress ticket to the Lok Sabha. Months after he retired, he lost a Rajya Sabha election, but was compensated with a judgeship in the Surpeme Court. He resigned his second Rajya Sabha term to be sent to the Gauhati High Court in 1972. He resigned when overlooked by a Congress regime for Supreme Court judgeship the NDA later gave him governorship of Jharkhand and then Bihar.Ĭongress’s Baharul Islam shuttled between Parliament and courts. Rama Jois, who shared an Emergency prison cell with Jan Sangh leaders, was made a high court judge by the Janata regime in which they were ministers. Krishna Iyer was a minister in Kerala’s first communist government, was made a high court judge during the second, and later lifted to the Supreme Court. Mahajan left the Punjab High Court to become PM of Jammu & Kashmir and chalk out its merger with the Union of India, and was then sent to the Supreme Court. Reverse migrations―from political posts to the bench―have been equally common. Ranjan Gogoi got a nominated Rajya Sabha seat four months after he retired under a cloud. Sathasivam governor of Kerala five months after his retirement. The Congress got Ranganatha Misra, who had given its leaders a clean chit in the anti-Sikh riots, a Raj Bhavan and then a seat in the Rajya Sabha. Congress-backed United Front put Fathima Beevi in the Chennai Raj Bhavan in 1997, five years after her retirement. Singh sent him as governor to Assam and Arunachal. Thakur, joined Sheikh Abdullah’s cabinet after he resigned from the J&K high court, and was made deputy CM in another Sheikh cabinet. Chagla had an illustrious judgeship before he became a Union minister. Nehru made Fazl Ali governor of Odisha within days of his retirement from the top court. Is there a quid pro quo?Įarlier too, ex-judges have been sent to Raj Bhavans, the Rajya Sabha, and even cabinets. He was acquitted after a trial where Caesar gave no evidence, yet Caesar divorced her saying, Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.įine, but does a judge have to remain like Ceasar’s wife after he ceases to be a judge? That’s the point being debated after Abdul Nazeer’s appointment as Andhra governor. In 62 BC Julius Caesar’s wife Pompeia hosted a ladies-only feast where Clodius was caught sneaking in with the intent of seducing her. Judges, like Caesar’s wife, should be above suspicion, said Lord Bowen in 1889.
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