NEW DELHI: Former Law minister Shanti Bhushan has submitted a list of 16 former Chief Justices of India saying that 8 of them were definitely corrupt.Bhushan has also dared the apex court to send him to jail for contempt of court.
Bhusan, who was Law minister in the Morarji Desai government, claimed six of the CJIs were honest and he could not comment on the remaining two judges. He submitted the name of eight "corrupt judges" to the Supreme Court.
Bhushan had written an article in 'Tehelka' magazine about the corrupt judges in Supreme Court after which the apex court started a contempt proceeding against him.
The application by Bhushan is in a contempt proceeding against his son Prashant Bhushan for casting aspersion on the integrity of present CJI SH Kapadia and former CJI KG Balakrishnan.
Bhushan also claimed that two former CJIs had personally told him while they were in office that their immediate predecessor and immediate successor were corrupt judges.
The father-son duo has been spearheading campaign against corruption in judiciary. Bhushan was the law minister in the Morarji Desai government from 1977 to 1979. con
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