{"id":88707,"date":"2022-11-14T06:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88707"},"modified":"2022-11-14T06:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:48:03","slug":"not-befitting-ex-chief-justice-to-ndtv-on-accepting-rajya-sabha-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/not-befitting-ex-chief-justice-to-ndtv-on-accepting-rajya-sabha-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Befitting&#8221;: Ex Chief Justice To NDTV On Accepting Rajya Sabha Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit today told NDTV that while he is not averse to the idea of accepting a government appointment, he would not accept a Rajya Sabha nomination or a Governor posting as he believes it&#8217;s &#8220;not a demotion, but not befitting the status of Chief Justice&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;To my mind, having held the position as Chief Justice of the country, perhaps, I think the position as a nominee Member of Rajya Sabha is not the correct idea or as a Governor of a state is again not a correct idea,&#8221; he said to a question on judges, like former CJI Ranjan Gogoi, accepting post-retirement government postings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That&#8217;s my personal view. I&#8217;m not suggesting that those persons are in the wrong,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Lalit mentioned National Human Rights Commission chief, Lokpal, and Law Commission chief as jobs he wouldn&#8217;t mind taking up if asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajya Sabha is a completely different thing. What I mean to say is that places like chairperson of NHRC&#8230;wherever there is a legislation which the Parliament has passed, and the Parliament has prescribed that so-and-so person with requisite experience who was or is judge of the Supreme Court or former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, we go by the wisdom of the Parliament,&#8221; he clarified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Chief Justice said he would love to do some law teaching at various levels. &#8220;Maybe the National Judicial Academy as a resource person. Go to some of the law schools as visiting Professor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:&nbsp; Retired Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit today told NDTV that while he is not averse to the idea of accepting a government appointment, he would not accept a Rajya Sabha nomination or a Governor posting as he believes it&#8217;s &#8220;not a demotion, but not befitting the status of Chief Justice&#8221;.&nbsp; &#8220;To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88709,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88707\/revisions\/88709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}