Patna, Aug. 25 -- BJP leader and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad has strongly countereda group of former Supreme Court and High Court judges who issued a joint statement condemning union Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly "misinterpreting" the Supreme Court's 2011 judgment in the Salwa Judum case.
Prasad defended Shah's remarks, stating that they were "quite appropriate."The former judges had accused Shah of publicly misrepresenting the Salwa Judum judgment and asserted that the verdict neither supported Naxalism nor its ideology, either explicitly or by implication.
Addressing the media here today, Prasad said, "I wish to raise some very fundamental issues about Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, who is the candidate for the Vice Presiden...