The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL in search of an impartial probe by CBI or SIT into the alleged honeytrapping of legislators, public servants, and judges in Karnataka.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol, and Sandeep Mehta declined the plea, calling it “political nonsense”.
“You are a resident of Jharkhand. Why are you bothering about what is happening in that state? They are competent enough to take care of this,” Justice Nath informed advocate Barun Sinha, who was representing the petitioner.
When the advocate mentioned allegations surrounding the honey-trap case had been severe and a judicial inquiry is required, the bench mentioned, “Why should you fall into a honey-trap. If you fall into a honey-trap, they are inviting trouble for yourself.”
When the lawyer mentioned there are allegations judges are additionally concerned in a honey-trap, Justice Nath replied, “Forget about judges, they will take care of themselves.”
The plea filed by a Jharkhand resident, Binay Kumar Singh, sought impartial probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising of law enforcement officials who usually are not topic to regulate or affect of the State of Karnataka.
Last week, Cooperation Minister KN Rajanna alleged that 48 folks have fallen sufferer to “honey traps” within the state and their obscene movies have been circulated. The Congress MLA claimed that the listing was throughout get together traces, together with state and nationwide leaders.
The petition mentioned, “There were very serious and troubling allegations made on the floor of the Karnataka state legislature that a person aspiring to be the Chief Minister of the state has been successful in honey trapping several persons, amongst whom are judges. The allegations have been made by a sitting minister who has claimed himself to be a victim, thereby lending credibility to the serious allegations.”
“Not only that, another minister of the government has not only echoed the allegations made by the first minister, rather alleged that the scale and proportion of the scandal is at least ten times than what is currently visible,” it added.
It additional mentioned that judges getting compromised by means like honey trapping poses a severe risk to judicial independence and gravely undermines public confidence within the establishment.
