Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee sent the following letter to The Telegraph on Monday evening. Chatterjee’s letter was in response to an article published in the newspaper on Monday by Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, who was part of the two-ju

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'Uneasy conscience …and all the best' Somnath Chatterjee Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee sent the following letter to The Telegraph on Monday evening. Chatterjee's letter was in response to an article published in the newspaper on Monday by Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, who was part of the two-judge Supreme Court bench that delivered the 2G verdict. Chatterjee's letter follows: My attention has been drawn to certain remarks made by Sri Asok Kumar Ganguly, former Judge of Supreme Court, in which he has chosen to make some comments on my observations published in your esteemed paper on the recent judgment of the Supreme Court, regarding allotment of 2G spectrum licences. Sri Ganguly has agreed that the right to criticise a judgment is part of one's freedom of speech guaranteed under the Constitution. Exercising that right, I had made some bona fide comments on the important judgment. In his anxiety to support the Supreme Court decision, he has accused me of adopting double standard, which discloses an attitude of one being always right. As I am extremely affectionate towards him, from whom I received considerable help and support while he appeared as Junior in many matters, I do not make comments about the merits of the contentions made by him in his article, except to say that I wish as an ex-Judge, he had not taken the task of trying to justify something which he did as a sitting judge, which betrays his uneasy conscience. I wish he had not referred to the judgments in the railway dismissal cases, which were not decided on the matter of a wrong policy and with which there is not the slightest similarity of the spectrum case judgment. However, I wish Mr Ganguly all the best in the future and I am sure his services will be utilised in different spheres for the benefit of the country.

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