New Delhi, July 30(ANI): Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, against whom impeachment proceedings were on in Rajya Sabha for his alleged acts of corruption, has submitted his resignation to President Pratibha Patil.
In his two-page resignation letter, Dinakaran, who is due to retire on May 5 next year, said that he was being targeted for being a Dalit and blamed "vested interests" for causing calculated damage to him for not yielding to their "political demands and requests".
"I have a sneaking suspicion that my misfortune was because of my circumstances of my birth in the socially oppressed and underprivileged section of society," Dinakaran wrote in the letter.
"Integrity of members of these communities who attain high office is always baselessly questioned through innuendo, sneering and spreading false rumours while the privileged are treated by the vested interests as embodiment of all virtues," he added.
The charges against the judge include land grabbing, accumulation of unaccounted assets, passing judicial order for extraneous considerations, following which his elevation to the Supreme Court was also stalled. (ANI)
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