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SC judge gets call from minister on his plan to visit Varanasi

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
"I only hear a PIL. I myself do not do the cleaning," a Supreme Court judge said today revealing that his office got a call from a woman Cabinet minister's staff whether he was going to participate in a Ganga cleaning event in Varanasi.

Disclosing this, Justice T S Thakur, who is part of the bench hearing a PIL on cleaning of the sacred river, said that his staff recently got a call from the office of a woman cabinet minister to ask whether he was going to Varanasi or not.

"I asked my office to convey that I hear the PIL on Ganga. I myself do not do the cleaning," Justice Thakur said.
 

The judge made the remark during the hearing of a PIL on police reforms.

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First Published: Jan 13 2015 | 8:55 PM IST

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