Senior Advocate Named In Justice Swaminathan Impeachment Notice Calls Allegations A 'Charade'

A political and legal row has erupted over an impeachment motion moved against Madras High Court judge Justice G R Swaminathan, with a senior advocate named in the allegations strongly rejecting the charges and warning that the move amounts to a frontal assault on judicial independence.

CNN-News18 has exclusively accessed a detailed statement by senior advocate M Sricharan Ranganathan, whose name figures prominently in the impeachment notice submitted to the Lok Sabha Speaker. The motion accuses Justice Swaminathan of allegedly favouring Ranganathan in a series of cases, a charge the advocate has categorically denied.

In his statement, Ranganathan describes the impeachment bid as “a charade" and a “frontal assault on an unyielding judge" of the Madras High Court, arguing that the allega