NEW DELHI:Â Â Outgoing Chief Justice of India Justice R M Lodha on Saturday said no judge should accept a post retirement government job or constitutional office and added that there should be a two year cooling off period.
“My view is Chief Justice of India or Supreme Court judges or Chief Justice of High Court should not accept any constitutional post or government assignment. There should be cooling off period of two years,” Chief Justice Lodha said.Â
The Chief Justice said to avoid such situations, there is a need to scrap the laws that require Tribunals and Commissions to be headed by judges.Â
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Lodha was interacting with media on his last day in office. One of the last verdicts delivered by a bench led by Lodha was the cancelling all but four of 218 coal block allocations by the government over the past two decades.
Justice Lodha’s predecessor, Justice P Sathasivam, was earlier this month caught in a controversy when he was appointed Governor of Kerala, soon after his retirement. Justice Sathasivam was Chief Justice of India from August last year to April.
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