While attending the VHP event, the judge had said the main aim of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is to promote social harmony, gender equality and secularism.In a related development, Prashant Bhushan, a lawyer and convenor of the NGO, Campaign for Judicial accountability and Reforms (CJAR), wrote a letter to the CJI Khanna seeking an “in-house enquiry” into Justice Yadav’s conduct.Echoing similar concern, senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal, also called for the impeachment of Justice Yadav, Judge of the Allahabad High Court, for his controversial speech on Sunday.Also in top courtJal Jeevan scheme case: Middleman gets bailThe Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to a middleman arrested in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the alleged irregularities in Rajasthan’s Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. While granting the reprieve to Sanjay Badaya, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan asked the Enforcement Directorate whether the then minister of the department concerned, on whose behalf the accused allegedly received money, was made an accused in the case. The ED counsel replied in the negative and said an investigation is underway.
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