Noting that the “timing” of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s letter to Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, complaining against Justice N V Ramana, and the state’s move to make it public “could certainly be said to be suspect” in the wake of the latter’s order to expedite trial in cases against legislators, Attorney General K K Venugopal on Monday, however, declined consent to initiate proceedings against Reddy for criminal contempt of the Supreme Court.
In a letter to Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, who had sought his consent to initiate criminal…