This is an email I sent to Mr. Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, and former Union Law Minister today
Dear Shanti Bhushanji,
I hope this finds you well.
You would recollect that before Justice Dattu became CJI I had sent you ( through Prashant ) a dossier containing documentary proof of the large scale corruption by him. This dossier of about 100 pages included several phoptocopies of sale deeds by which Dattu and his family members illegally acquired a large number of properties in Bangalore. I also sent you by email photographs of a palatial house built by Dattu in Bangalore on 1200 sq.m. land..
After reading this dossier you telephoned me and said that the allegations therein are serious. I then told you that in that case COJA ( Committee on Judicial Accountability ), of which you and Prashant are founding members, should investigate into the allegations in the dossier. However, for some reason you and Prashant did not do so.
I now request you and Prashant to call a meeting of COJA and investigate into the charges, since you yourself told me that the charges were serious.
You and Prashant are known to be crusaders against corruption, and you will be rendering a great service to the country if you do so. Prima facie it seems that Dattu has amassed a fortune, and he must explain ( 1 ) how he came across such wealth, ( 2 ) whether it is true that the Karnataka Land Reforms Act was flouted in these deals ( 3 ) whether the rules of the society in which some plots were purchased were flouted ( 4 ) why were several plots purchased in the name of Dattu's wife Gayathri showed her as daughter of Guravayoor, instead of wife of Justice Dattu, etc.
I had sent a copy of the dossier to Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the then Union Law Minister, and requested him to get an enquiry made, but evidently he did nothing.
I expect you now to start the investigation immediately. Already too much time has expired. The whole country looks upto you to get this enquiry made. Like Arjuna, you are standing on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and are expected to do your duty
Regards
Justice Katju
Dear Shanti Bhushanji,
I hope this finds you well.
You would recollect that before Justice Dattu became CJI I had sent you ( through Prashant ) a dossier containing documentary proof of the large scale corruption by him. This dossier of about 100 pages included several phoptocopies of sale deeds by which Dattu and his family members illegally acquired a large number of properties in Bangalore. I also sent you by email photographs of a palatial house built by Dattu in Bangalore on 1200 sq.m. land..
After reading this dossier you telephoned me and said that the allegations therein are serious. I then told you that in that case COJA ( Committee on Judicial Accountability ), of which you and Prashant are founding members, should investigate into the allegations in the dossier. However, for some reason you and Prashant did not do so.
I now request you and Prashant to call a meeting of COJA and investigate into the charges, since you yourself told me that the charges were serious.
You and Prashant are known to be crusaders against corruption, and you will be rendering a great service to the country if you do so. Prima facie it seems that Dattu has amassed a fortune, and he must explain ( 1 ) how he came across such wealth, ( 2 ) whether it is true that the Karnataka Land Reforms Act was flouted in these deals ( 3 ) whether the rules of the society in which some plots were purchased were flouted ( 4 ) why were several plots purchased in the name of Dattu's wife Gayathri showed her as daughter of Guravayoor, instead of wife of Justice Dattu, etc.
I had sent a copy of the dossier to Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the then Union Law Minister, and requested him to get an enquiry made, but evidently he did nothing.
I expect you now to start the investigation immediately. Already too much time has expired. The whole country looks upto you to get this enquiry made. Like Arjuna, you are standing on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and are expected to do your duty
Regards
Justice Katju
