New Delhi, May 16 -- Former judge of the Mumbai High Court Abhay Thipsay has defended his role in giving a legal opinion in the Nirav Modi case as a witness before a UK court and feels that Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad has targeted him apparently because he refused to "compromise" despite pressure and persuasions from different quarters in some sensitive cases.

Speaking to The Pioneer on phone, Justice (retd) Thipsay explained that the entire controversy has two parts. First, to do with his legal opinion in the extant case; the other one with his past judgments.

"Let me first deal with the first part," he said. "I simply gave a legal opinion as a witness. I was not defending Nirav Modi or anyone. Some people are trying to project thi...