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Sanjiv Prakash Sharma, who recently retired as acting chief justice of the Rajasthan high court , in an interview to HT rejected the allegations levelled against him by Supreme Court judge Justice Sandeep Mehta, terming them as “completely fabricated” and driven by “personal jealousy”.
His remarks were those of a layman rather than a Supreme Court judge . To my knowledge, not a single allegation made by him has been found to be true.
Whatever Justice Mehta has said was a deliberate act of conspiracy.
Might be simple professional jealousy. I was elevated without moving an application; the entire full court selected me to become a senior advocate. He had applied, of course. And I am a first-generation lawyer.. and he comes from a reputed judicial family. Both of us were made senior advocates together, and when the issue came for elevation, he saw to it that I didn’t become (chief justice).
In 2011, both of us were elevated as senior advocates.
