Amid allegations that kin of sitting judges of the Delhi High Court were favoured in the Delhi Judicial Services examinations, Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda has stepped in and asked its Chief Justice G. Rohini to look into the matter.
Mr. Gowda’s letter assumes significance as usually such complaints and allegations are sent to the Registrar General of the High Court concerned, but this time the Law Minister himself addressed the letter directly to the Chief Justice.
In his letter written last week, Mr. Gowda pointed out that the Department of Justice in his ministry has received several complaints that kin of sitting judges of the Delhi High Court were allegedly favoured in the examination held last year.
He said as per allegations, judges of the high court were involved in the examination process and the kin of sitting judges qualified the test. Mr. Gowda is learnt to have named the candidates who qualified in the examinations held last year.
The petitions addressed to the Law Ministry had alleged that RTI queries regarding the examination process remained partially answered. —PTI
Kin of sitting judges of Delhi High Court have been allegedly favoured in the Delhi Judicial Services examinations
