Reacting to Jailtey's remarks on post-retirement assignments for retired judges, Katju said the post of the Chairman of the Press Council has by convention been given to a retired judge of the Supreme Court.
“There are many judges who have been given post-retirement posts,” he said, adding that Justice J S Verma, Justice Swatantra Kumar and Justice D K Jain had been appointed as chairmen of the National Human Rights Commission, National Green Tribunal and the Law Commission respectively.
“Why does Mr Jaitley forget the post-retirement appointments given by the NDA when he was the Law Minister?” Katju said.
He claimed at least two judges were transferred from their parent High Courts to the Rajasthan High Court “for reasons well known to Mr Jaitley and about which I do not wish to comment.”
