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Suspended Bombay judge sacked from judicial service

Suspended judge J W Singh, facing charge of extortion in nexus with the underworld, has been dismissed from judicial service. The dismissal order was served upon him in the central prison in Bombay on Thursday, Hemant Sampat, Additional Registrar, Special Investigation Department, Bombay high court, informed.

The judge has been dismissed by the Maharashtra government on the advice of the chief justice of the Bombay high court, Sampat said. Singh was suspended in August last year after the high court registrar charged him with developing links with the underworld.

Police claim to have recorded in March-April last year three telephonic talks between Singh, Karachi-based don Chhota Shakeel and deceased lawyer Liyakat Ali Shaikh, which reveal that he had 'hired' goons to recover money, pertaining to his chit fund, amounting to Rs 4 million in lieu of judicial favours.

Singh has already been chargesheeted for offences under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act. A special court set up under MCOCA framed charges against him early this month.

Singh's petition, challenging the police decision to book him under MCOCA and the court's jurisdiction to try him for offences under PCA, was admitted by the Bombay high court on September 6. It will be heard on September 26.

Another petition, seeking contempt action against Singh for his alleged conduct in hiring underworld elements to recover his money, will be heard by Justices G D Patil and R M Lodha on September 25. The petition, filed by Advocate M P Vashi, says that Singh had brought the judiciary into disrepute.

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