"We've Been Reduced To A Mockery": Judge Questions Narada Case Decisions

Justice Saha alleges that the CBI's petition asking for the Narada case to be transferred outside Bengal was listed wrongly as a "writ petition" by the Calcutta High Court and therefore marked to a division bench instead of a single judge.

A Calcutta High Court judge, objecting to the manner in which the Narada bribery case was handled, has put out a sharp critique of his colleagues alleging "unbecoming conduct" in a letter to senior judges. "We have been reduced to a mockery," Justice Arindam Saha writes in the letter that has stunned the judiciary. Justice Saha alleges that the CBI's petition asking for the Narada case to be transferred outside Bengal was listed wrongly as a "writ petition" by the Calcutta High Court and therefore marked to a division bench instead of a single judge.     "The High Court must get its act together. Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands," Justice Saha wrote in his letter to acting Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and other judges. The CBI had filed the petition last week after arresting four Trinamool leaders, including two Bengal ministers. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Bindal had heard the request.