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CJI Surya Kant (Source: ANI)
NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant has taken up the decease threats being issued to retired Bombay HC justice Justice Gautam Patel with the Indian precocious committee successful London, and has been assured that capable information arrangements person been enactment successful spot for him and his family.The CJI, who is connected an authoritative sojourn to the UK, met Indian precocious commissioner P Kumaran hours aft Justice Patel went nationalist astir the menace missive delivered to his daughter’s residence successful London.“I had a treatment with the precocious commissioner, who assured that nary harm would travel to him oregon his household and that capable information arrangements person been made by the London police,” CJI Kant told TOI.Justice Patel connected Monday had said the missive was successful effect to a judgement helium passed successful 2024.
The case, which is pending appeal, sought to found the succession and sanction of the Syedna, the spiritual person of the Dawoodi Bohra community.Over the past 10 months, the Patel household has received respective anonymous letters, including 1 successful 2025 which, Justice Patel said, “accused maine of having delivered my judgement fraudulently, nether pressure”. The missive asked the justice to merchandise a video connected YouTube to authorities helium had “delivered an incorrect verdict… which has caused irreparable harm to the religion and aboriginal of a respected assemblage of a cardinal positive members”.
On the onslaught connected his girl successful London, Justice Patel had said, “This is simply a clever effort to leverage the jurisdictional spread betwixt Mumbai and London. There has been nary onslaught connected maine successful Mumbai, for that would effect successful contiguous section action. Instead, the onslaught is directed against my daughter, a British citizen, connected British soil. The transportation to maine and the judgement remains, but the existent onslaught — and truthful existent probe — gets localised to UK.
”The precocious commissioner informed the CJI the menace appeared to person originated successful India arsenic the intimidation was related to a lawsuit successful Maharashtra. CJI Kant said, “I person sent a connection to the acting main justness of Bombay HC (Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge) to instrumentality due steps connected the judicial and administrative broadside arsenic the litigation pertained to section parties.” The CJI is expected to beryllium backmost successful India connected June 12.
