Mumbai, Aug. 29 -- Hitesh Jain, a member of the 23rd Law Commission of India, on Friday criticised retired Judges of the Supreme Court alleging that some of them were openly behavning like political activists. He also criticised from SC judge Justice Abhay S Oka, for defending the Opposition's Vice-Presidential candidate Justice Sudershan Reddy in a row over his verdict in the Salwa Judam case.

Sharing an X post, Hitesh Jain raised concerns over comments by Justices Abhay Oka, Madan B Lokur, S Muralidhar, and Sanjib Banerjee and alleged a "partisan" behaviour.

He wrote, "I recently read some interviews given by Justice Abhay Oka. I was not surprised to see that he was also a signatory to the statement issued by a group of former judges ...