The Supreme Court has asked Nagaland Lokayukta Uma Nath Singh to resign from his position in view of the spate of controversies the former high court chief justice has been embroiled in. An SC bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde on Monday suggested Lokayukta’s counsel that it is better to step down rather than demeaning himself and the offices that he has held in his career.
The bench asked the former judge’s lawyer Vikas Singh, “When there is no dignity in continuing, why go through all this and insist to continue at any cost?”
The SC was hearing a petition filed by the Nagaland government demanding that the Lokayukta be stripped of all his powers. The state government has sought removal of the Singh, alleging various acts of impropriety and unjustified personal demands by him. Its petition contended that the Singh has continued to work online even though the chief secretary did not approve of this. Singh’s lawyer responded that it was because of the corona pandemic that Singh had insisted on doing his work from Delhi. However, this argument failed to convince the bench.
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