Fellow judges skip tea meet called by Blogger Judge

No judge turned up for the meeting at the Conference Hall of the High Court,except Justice Kumar. He,however,refused to comment. “This is an informal meeting. It is out of bounds for the media,” he said.

This was the second instance when Justice Kumar called a meeting of judges since the controversy around the alleged accumulation of illegal wealth and land by the Karnataka Chief Justice erupted in September 2009. Just three judges attended the earlier meeting on Saturday.  

Prior to the surfacing of the controversy around the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court,Justice Kumar had on August 24,2009 countered the Chief Justice of India’s views on public declaration of assets by judges of the higher courts in the country.

In his letter inviting judges to the tea meeting,Justice Kumar had lamented the descent of “a pal of gloom in the corridors of the High Court of Karnataka”.  

“There is virtually no life,forget about any lively action taking place and even our routine tea meetings and weekly meetings over lunch have all come to a grinding halt and it is as though we have become strangers in our own high court,” he wrote.

He attributed the situation as being a factor of the impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of the High Court. He stated that the collegium of the Supreme Court was “blissfully insensitive” to the public outcry over the situation resulting in the image of the judiciary taking “a thorough drubbing in the process”.