Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi lashes out on the media and slams Mahua Moitra’s accusations

Ex-Chief Justice of India and Rajya Sabha MP Ranjan Gogoi has been the favorite punching bag of the left-liberal neighborhood ever because the historic Ayodhya verdict. Unfortunately, one has to pay the price of being on the mistaken aspect of the left-liberal neighborhood with makes an attempt to besmirch Gogoi’s legacy now a commonplace. However, Rajya Sabha MP Gogoi isn’t deterred by this as he not solely hit out at TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s feedback in opposition to him but additionally additional uncovered the workings of the liberal foyer as he claimed that judges are sometimes pressurised by a piece in media to behave in a way beneficial to them.Speaking at India Today Conclave, Ranjan Gogoi mentioned, “What is this attack? Will a judge or a former judge be cowed down by attacks? Will he ever be able to function if he’s afraid of being attacked while in office or after office? If a judge is made conscious that look, you better do what I want, otherwise post retirement you’ll be attacked in the media — India Today, NDTV 24X7, Indian Express, the web portals.”Read More: “They hold judges to ransom,” From Rafale to Ram Mandir, Ranjan Gogoi drops the atom bomb on anti-establishment cabalHe added, “We are telling you conduct yourself the way we want or else we’ll attack you. Can a judge be cowed down by that? Unfortunately there are many who are succumbing. This is the real threat.”Gogoi’s feedback got here within the backdrop of TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s current statements in opposition to him within the parliament. “India’s tragedy today is not that her government has failed her, but that her other democratic pillars, the media and the judiciary have failed her. The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred,” mentioned Mahua.She added, “It stopped being sacred the day a sitting chief justice of this country was accused of sexual harassment, presided over his own trial, cleared himself and then proceeded to accept a nomination to the Upper House in three months of retirement complete with Z-plus security cover…The judiciary stopped being sacred when it squandered the opportunity to guard the founding principles of the Constitution.”Read More: Mahua Moitra’s unsavoury remarks about ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi has landed her in large hassleThe authorities is planning to carry a privilege movement in opposition to Mahua for her feedback in opposition to ex-CJI Gogoi, as a result of, as per Article 121 of the structure, no feedback might be made on judges in parliament until the removing of the choose is being mentioned, Gogoi has refused to take any authorized recourse in opposition to the TMC MP.Gogoi too, hit again at Moitra’s unsavoury remarks as he mentioned, “She didn’t even have her facts correct. If you are making allegations, at least name the person. I have a name and I deserve to be named. Those allegations are wrong in facts.”Gogoi claimed that the point out of the case involving him within the parliament was an try and ship a message to the remaining. “They want you to conduct yourself in a certain way and if you do not, they will attack you,” mentioned the previous CJI.Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi thus made his stand clear, talking at India Today Conclave. While he hit again at TMC MP Mahua Moitra for her unsavoury remarks, he additionally lashed out at sure media portals for sometimes attempt to pressurise the judges to behave in a way beneficial to them.