CBI judge chastises Amit Shah for skipping fake encounter hearings, transferred a few days later

Thursday, 26 June 2014 By Legally India Bar, Bench & Litigation

CBI judge JT Utpat, who was presiding in a Mumbai hearing into 2006’s alleged fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, had told off BJP general secretary Amit Shah’s lawyers on 20 June because their client for wanted to be exempted from appearing in court and had skipped a hearing in the case on 6 June.

Now Utpat has been transferred to Pune and replaced by BH Loya who will take over his case. Utpat apparently requested the transfer, according to the Bombay high court, which told the Indian Express that Utpat wanted to be transferred “because of his daughter’s education” and that he was one of three transfers that took place at the same time.

Shah is one of several people who was chargesheeted by the CBI in the case.

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Comments

Rao 27 Jun 2014, 08:57

+4 -1

Kian, very misleading title. Think this is a 'legalese' website and most people who come here would know that transfers of Judges are done by the High Court. So is the innuendo that the HC is working at the behest of xxx??? and transferred the judge. It may be claimed that the body of the message explains it, but the innuendo has already done the damage, as many people may not read the full message. Suggest you change the title.

kianganz 27 Jun 2014, 09:04

+1 -3

Not sure what the background is, to be honest. Here's a judge who apparently *requested* a transfer only a few days after hitting a difficult juncture in a quite important case, that's all that the headline says. No causal link has been established so far, though, I agree.

Conclusions: Either it was an unfortunate coincidence, or the judge is to blame for not taking enough responsibility in the case, or maybe he couldn't take the public / media pressure, or, if you want to follow conspiracy theories, maybe he was pushed to request a transfer at the behest of xxx?

Sumit P 30 Jun 2014, 05:27

+1 -1

Whoever published (and allowed it to be published) with this misleading headline, betrayed his political bias. Doesn't do justice to Legally India. Might as well rename it as National Herald!!

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