Centre not aware of Dinakaran impeachment move

New Delhi: Amid the campaign by some legal activists for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, the government on Wednesday said it was not aware of any such move.

"I have not heard about it (impeachment). The government is not aware of anything," Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily told reporters here.

He was asked about the move by The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR) and the Forum for Judicial Accountability (FJA) on Monday to gather signatures of at least 100 MPs for moving an impeachment motion against the judge in Parliament.

The 59-year-old judge has been at the centre of a controversy in the wake of allegations of land grabbing against him.

Last week, the Law Ministry had rejected the recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium for Dinakaran's elevation as a judge of the apex court and sent it back for reconsideration.

Dinakaran had claimed that reports of the District Collector of Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu relating to alleged land grabbing by him were not correct.