Two Supreme Court officials who had been sacked in 2019 for allegedly tampering with a judicial order to exempt industrialist Anil Ambani from appearing in person in a contempt case were pardoned by Justice S.A. Bobde before he retired as Chief Justice of India last month, court sources have told
The Telegraph.
The two officials, Manav Sharma and Tapan Kumar Chakraborty, functioned as court masters who record judicial orders pronounced by the judges in the highest court of the land.
Sharma has been reinstated with a reduction in rank on the condition that he would not be eligible for promotion for five years. Chakraborty’s sack order has been changed to “compulsory retirement”, enabling him to claim all retirement benefits such as provident fund, gratuity, pension and medical benefits, the sources said.