272:. Later, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh questioned about the desirability of shifting Chief Justices. The Law Ministry returned the file to the collegium for consideration afresh. As a result, the collegium, headed by the then incumbent Chief Justice of India, S.H. Kapadia, met and reconsidered the whole issue and stuck to the earlier decision to shift the Chief Justices. The Sikkim Bar Association opposed the transfer of Dinakaran to the Sikkim High Court and asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the proposal, (which requires approval from Indian President
291:"Before demitting office, I must confess with a very heavy heart that in spite of my constitutional position, I have been denied fair opportunity to defend myself and my reputation by the Judges Inquiry Committee," he said in a two-page letter of resignation sent to President Pratibha Patil.
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Mysteriously, on 4 August 2011, Justice
Dinakaran had a "change of heart" and wrote to the law ministry seeking to withdraw his resignation. But the ministry rejected his request. However, his pre-emptive resignation did manage to scuttle the probe against him as the chairman of
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Facing impeachment on charges of corruption and judicial misconduct, he resigned from the post of Sikkim high court Chief
Justice on 29 July 2011 expressing "lack of faith and confidence" in the three-member inquiry Committee probing charges against him.
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Then cases of misconduct and corruption were alleged against him by
Chennai-based Forum for Judicial Accountability, in September 2009. These allegations were confirmed by the Tiruvallur Collector in two reports. Only after this, the
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will keep getting their post-retirement benefits, even though they resigned ahead of impeachment proceedings against them, as there are no
Constitutional or statutory provisions restricting their entitlements in such a scenario.
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Dinakaran, a Dalit, also said he had a "sneaking suspicion" that his "misfortune" was because of the circumstances of his birth in the socially oppressed and underprivileged section of the society.
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Dinakaran's plea seeking Rao's removal just on the ground that Rao was biased against him. However, the same bench refused to quash the charges framed by three-member panel saying
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340:"They are legally trained minds who can detect the fabricated material. In fact, it (three-member panel) would offer protection to a judge also from baseless allegations,"
218:. On 29 July 2011 he resigned from the post of Sikkim High Court Chief Justice. He was facing impeachment allegedly on the charges of corruption and judicial misconduct.
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Hometown Arakkonam more than what was fixed by the Tamil Nadu Land reforms. The lawyers requested
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and for several Local Bodies, Educational
Institutions, Teachers' Federations, Agriculturists Associations, Marketing Societies and Social Organisations.
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On 15 January 2012, it became public through an RTI query that
Justice Dinakaran along with his other colleague facing similar accusations Justice
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203:announced that Dinakaran would be elevated to a
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101:(born 9 May 1950) served as the
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669:Venkatesan, J. (30 July 2010).
538:"Judge's integrity in question"
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