Tanmoy Chatterjee
Keeping aside the public interest case, the Calcutta High Court allowed the broadcast of Calcutta High Court Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay’s interview on Monday. A public interest case was filed in the court to stop the interview before it aired on a private channel. However, that appeal was ultimately unsuccessful.
The writ petition was filed by a citizen named Sheikh Saidullah. He said in his petition that such interviews are in conflict with the values of the judiciary and the principal of Bangalore. He applied for an immediate order to stop such interviews.
However, a division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj informed that this application was made in view of certain possibilities. The interview was then broadcast.
Besides, the court said, the petitioner could not give proper convincing arguments on his behalf. In that case, there is no special ground to entertain the writ petition.
Meanwhile, the state government was one of the parties to the case. According to the court’s order, the Advocate General said that it is not right to allow anything that tarnishes the reputation of the institution. Besides, the issue of protecting the institution is also mentioned. Reference was also made to a Supreme Court case in reference to Advocate Prashant Bhushan. However, it was mentioned in the order by the court, in this situation, we believe that the Bangalore Principal will respect the court and respect the court in presenting any statement.
Along with this, the bench of judges said, in the larger public interest, the channel will not broadcast anything that tarnishes the image of the judiciary. Along with this, the court said that Advocate Prashant Bhushan’s case was completely different.
And in that interview, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay said, I have always been honest. I will be honest. If this kind of corruption case comes again, I will give strict instructions again. And he mentions the issue of admitted corruption which is one of the part of the practice of Bengali life today.