15 May 2014

Justice Khehar recused himself from hearing Sahara case

Supreme Court judge Justice J S Khehar has recused himself from hearing the matter following which a new bench has been constituted. The bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar in its May 6 judgment had upheld its order jailing Subrata Roy and rejected his claim that rules of natural justice were not followed in the case. 
  65-year-old Roy, who has been in jail since March 4 for non-refund of over Rs 20,000 crore to depositors, was asked by the court to make a fresh proposal for paying Rs 10,000 crore to get bail. 

The court had passed the order on a petition filed by Roy challenging constitutional validity of its order passed on March 4 by which he was sent to jail for not complying with its order to deposit around Rs 20,000 crore of investors money with Sebi. 

Supreme Court judge Justice J S Khehar has recused himself from hearing the matter following which a new bench has been constituted. The bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar in its May 6 judgment had upheld its order jailing Subrata Roy and rejected his claim that rules of natural justice were not followed in the case. 
  65-year-old Roy, who has been in jail since March 4 for non-refund of over Rs 20,000 crore to depositors, was asked by the court to make a fresh proposal for paying Rs 10,000 crore to get bail. 

The court had passed the order on a petition filed by Roy challenging constitutional validity of its order passed on March 4 by which he was sent to jail for not complying with its order to deposit around Rs 20,000 crore of investors money with Sebi.