K.G. Balakrishnan Must Resign From NHRC Chairman
Parmanand Pandey Shri K.G. Balakrishnan, Ex-chief Justice of India and presently the Chairman of Human Rights Commission is doing more damage to the institution of judiciary than to himself by clinging on to the post without any sense of shame or remorse. Now when it has come to light that he and his relatives have amassed huge amount of wealth and property in the period when he held the office of a judge of the High Court and the Supreme Court. Inexplicably, instead of clearing the cloud of suspicion, he is maintaining mysterious silence, which is further strengthening the doubt. The conduct of justice Balakrishnan, in fact, has not been above board for quite long time. For instance; he stubbornly opposed the applicability of the Right to Information Act on the judges of the Supreme Court. This was ludicrous to say the least. Being the Chief of the Apex Court, he should have been first to welcome the idea of declaring the assets and liabilities by the judges but he resisted it to the