NEW DELHI: Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and senior lawyer Harish Salve will depose before the fourth and fifth meetings of the joint Parliamentary committee (JPC) scrutinising the ‘One Nation One Election (ONOE)’ bill, on March 11 and March 17.Along with Gogoi, Justice Rajendra Menon, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and the Chairperson of the Armed Forces Tribunal, will also depose before the panel on Tuesday. Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, former Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India and former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, will interact with the panel on March 17.The parliamentary committee’s agenda for the March 11 and 17 meetings is briefly listed as “interaction with legal experts”. Gogoi was nominated for Rajya Sabha in 2020, a year after his retirement as a CJI in November 2019. He presided over the Supreme Court for around 13 months, which was marred by many controversies. At the third meeting of the JPC, former Chief Justice of India U U Lalit said that the Bill will not pass legal test in the Supreme Court. Lalit also made several suggestions, including rolling out simultaneous polls in a phased manner.
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