Agartala, Mar 22, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk

Agartala, March 22: The Tripura Bar Council on Wednesday condemned the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s ‘Anti-India’ remark against retired judges and alleged that the remark is an attempt of the central government to intervene into the judiciary.

Addressing a press conference here at Agartala Press Club, veteran advocate and president of the bar council Purushottom Ray Barman said, “This is a very dangerous remark made by union law minister Kiren Rijiju as he termed some retired judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts as anti-Indian.”

The Union minister Kiren Rijiju, Saturday in a conclave by a national media had claimed that a few retired judges and some activists who are “part of the anti-India gang” are trying to make the Indian judiciary play the role of the opposition party.

“We believe that the Centre is trying to pressure the judiciary by restricting the judges to talk against the government. It is a threat to judges who refuse to bow down to the government,” he alleged.

He further alleged that the Central government is making a ‘dictatorial’ rule across the nation. “The Centre is trying to capture all kinds of institutions in the nation including the Indian judiciary system also,” he alleged.

On the other hand, the senior advocates of the Tripura High Court had written to the Chief Justice of India Dr. Justice D Y Chandrachud and other members of the collegium to demand appointment of permanent Chief Justice of Tripura High Court and filling up vacant posts of judges of the High Court.

The advocates demanded appointment of justice Aparesh Kumar Singh as the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court in terms of Collegium recommendation made on February 7 this year. The advocates in their letter stated that till date the Collegium recommendation for appointing Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh as Chief Justice of Tripura High Court, has not been acted upon by the Central government.