Madras High Court former judge T. Mathivanan has come to the adverse notice of the Supreme Court for having pronounced only a single-line order in open court in a criminal case and then releasing a detailed judgment running to 114 pages nearly five months after his retirement from service.
Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan of the apex court wrote: “According to us, retaining the file of a case for a period of five months after demitting the office is an act of gross impropriety on the part of the learned judge. We cannot countenance what has been done in this case.”
The observations were made while allowing an appeal preferred by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the orders passed by Justice Mathivanan who had quashed a charge-sheet filed by the investigating agency against businessman Naresh Prasad Agarwal of Chennai in a ₹113 crore cheating case.
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