Dinakaran: CJI takes service of expert body to verify report

advanced surveying and mapping agency to verify allegations of land

grabbing against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran

whose elevation to the apex court has been put on hold.

The decision has been taken to employ Department of Survey of India

(under the Ministry of Science and Technology) to examine the veracity

of the report of Tiruvallur District Collector which has gone against

Dinakaran,highly placed sources said.

The development came after Dinakaran had met the CJI on October 25

when he was here to attend the conference of Chief Justices and denied

all allegations.

Sources said the Surveyor-General’s office has been specifically asked

to conduct a survey in view of the report of the District Collector

which said Dinakaran had encroached public land using barbed wire.

The CJI has also sought a response of Tamil Nadu government on the

report of the District Collector. The CJI had on Sunday said the

Centre has been asked to process only the names of four other judges

cleared for promotion except Dinakaran as the inquiry into allegations

against him was not over.

Sources said “it is still being looked whether there is an iota of

evidence of corruption against Dinakaran based on the documents

supplied to the collegium”.