The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought three days’ time to examine a July 11 order passed by Karnataka High Court judge, Justice H.P. Sandesh, in which he revealed that he was threatened with transfer for his manner of examining a case linked to the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
“We request the learned judge to defer the hearing [in the ACB cases] for a period of three days to enable us to look into the order passed on July 11. List it on Friday,” a Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana observed in its order on Tuesday.
The order came on separate petitions filed by the Karnataka ACB and its top officer, ADGP Seemant Kumar Singh Singh, to expunge adverse remarks made by Justice Sandesh in court about them. They also wanted a stay on the proceedings before his Bench.
