P.D. Dinakaran

Justice P.D. Dinakaran CJ of the Sikkim High Court, ahead of a motion for his removal on charges of corruption pending in the RS. The justice faced charges of landgrab among others...
File photo of Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran. The Supreme Court refused to quash pre-impeachment charges framed against him by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel looking ...

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Fenced In Justice Dinakaran’s land in Kaverirajapuram in Tiruvallur, a part of which is said to be encroached upon

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Dinakaran’s family home in Arrakonam

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Land And Grab: Dinakaran’s controversial plot of land in Chennai

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Justice P.D. Dinakaran Currently chief justice of Sikkim High Court Allegation: Faces impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha. As former chief justice of Karnataka HC, he f...

KPN (From Outlook Magazine October 04, 2010 Issue)
Corruption in higher judiciary remained in news through the year. Finally, a petition seeking impeachment proceedings against beleaguered Karnataka High Court Chief Justice PD Dina...

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Magazine

What In The Name Of Justice!

A three-member inquiry panel enumerates specific charges against Dinakaran

Jun 13, 2011

| Chandrani Banerjee
How To Lower The Bar

The state high courts are rife with cases of abuse of the law and corruption

Oct 04, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju Smruti Koppikar Chandrani Banerjee Chander Suta Dogra Saikat Datta
Meet The Gloggers

Karnataka’s babus, netas are talking shop online

Aug 09, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
Courting A Quiet Burial?

The CBI chargesheet in the PF scam has three strange omissions

Aug 02, 2010

| Chandrani Banerjee
‘Controversies Were Always There, The Media Now Reports It In Detail’

The CJI on his three years in office, on several allegations of corruption and judicial impropriety against senior judges

Mar 22, 2010

| Chandrani Banerjee
Order Order Order ?!???!!

How transparent are appointments to our highest court?

Mar 01, 2010

| Anuradha Raman
On Your Marks

The blotches on the pages of our history

Feb 01, 2010

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The Left Arm Of The Law

The Chandigarh judge’s case is curiouser for all its acquittals

Jan 25, 2010

| Chander Suta Dogra
Please Ban This, By Law Or By Judicial Decree

If only to restore public trust in our judges, salutary precedents should be followed to keep errant judges off work till absolved

Dec 07, 2009

| Hosbet Suresh
After The Burial, At The Wake

‘India inured’. Who cares anymore for a hundred crore scam?

Nov 23, 2009

| Debarshi Dasgupta

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Ahead of Bypoll, Massive IT Raids in Tamil Nadu Targeting Moneybags of Sasikala Faction

Opinion polls had indicated the DMK slightly ahead of the OPS faction with Sasikala’s candidate Dinakaran trailing a distant third.

Apr 07, 2017

| G.C. Shekhar
Better Late Than Never

While the reconstitution of the Dinakaran Inquiry Committee is welcome, it only underscores the need for a permanent full time and independent Judicial performance Commission as a Constitutional body

Sep 28, 2010

| Prashant Bhushan Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms
'A Set Of Honest Men...'

The appointment process and the mechanism for ensuring judicial independence with judicial accountability at all levels are significant to thwart the impending threats to judicial independence.

Feb 23, 2010

| J.S. Verma
Raising The Bar

Resolution passed at the 3rd National Convention on “Making the Judiciary Accountable and Responsive to the People”, 6th - 7th February 2010, Nehru Memorial Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi

Feb 08, 2010

| Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms
'Ask Them If They Would Like To Recuse Themselves'

Full text of the letter to Vice President of India regarding the 3 member enquiry committee appointed to enquire into the motion for removal of Jusitce P.D. Dinakaran.

Jan 23, 2010

| Prashant Bhushan Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms
Make It Transparent

For the second time in quick succession, the recommendations of the Collegium for the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court have been returned by the Government. Time for a change

Dec 18, 2009

| Committee on Judicial Accountability
Impeachment Motion

Over 50 members of the Rajya Sabha sign a letter to be handed over to the Vice President seeking to initiate proceedings for the removal of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran. Text of the impeachment motion.

Dec 12, 2009

| Forum for Judicial Accountability
'My Honest And Bonafide Perception'

Full text of the affidavit by the noted campaigner for judicial accountability in response to the notice of contempt issued by the Supreme Court for his interview to a news magazine levelling corruption charges against past CJIs.

Dec 09, 2009

| Prashant Bhushan
'Guilty...'

The fourth memorandum of charges demands a CBI probe against Justice P.D. Dinakaran, that he be removed as chief justice of the Karnataka High Court, and that his property be attached

Oct 24, 2009

| Forum for Judicial Accountability
Raising The Bar

The lawyers, who constitute the Forum for Judicial Accountability, responsible for the petition against Justice Dinakaran, wanted no publicity. Characteristically, they were made the target of vicious rumours

Oct 16, 2009

| Sugata Srinivasaraju