The Supreme Court on Thursday took exception to the “scurrilous and unfounded allegations” made against judges in a plea against the conferment of senior designations to lawyers.
“How many judges can you name whose offsprings have been designated as senior counsel?” a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan asked advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, who appeared for the petitioners.
Referring to the averments in the plea, the bench observed it had insinuations against the judges.
“We find that various scurrilous, unfounded allegations have been made against the institution,” it said.
The bench referred to the averments made in the plea which read, “It is difficult, if not impossible, to find a judge sitting or retired, of the high court or Supreme Court, who has his offspring, brother, sister or nephew who has crossed the age of 40 remaining to be a plebeian lawyer.