Gopal Subramaniam will be a tribute to Supreme Court - Justice Krishna Iyer
JUSTICE VR Krishna Iyer, in a statement issued yesterday on the appointment rather disappointment of Gopal Subramaniam as a Judge of the Supreme Court, said,
But to my despair and disappointment, I read in the Indian Express that the Government has changed its mind and eliminated Gopal Subramaniam who was unanimously selected by the collegium. To some extent I know Shri. Gopal Subramaniam. He is a sound lawyer with great integrity and will be a tribute to the Supreme Court Bench if he is installed as the judge of the Supreme Court of India. However to eliminate him from that post will be an indefensible disaster, a disappointment which the country need not suffer from at all. As a retired judge of the Supreme Court myself I regret this measure of the Prime Minister. I hope he will reconsider this wrong step. The country cannot afford to lose a sound and splendid lawyer who will adorn the Supreme Court Bench.
Justice Iyer is about 99 years old.