CJ-VK Pandian Photo : Orissa HC says ‘Fake’

Cuttack: The Registry of Orissa High Court has denied reports that Chief Justice S Muralidhar held a closed-door meeting with Chief Minister’s private secretary VK Pandian and called it a ‘fake news’. It termed the fake news being made viral on social media as a scurrilous and s i n i s t e r attempt to malign the C h i e f Justice and t h e institution o f t h e judiciary as a whole. In a press release, the Registry s a id, “ It is extremely unfortunate that an item of fake news has been made viral on social media at the instance of a lawyer practising in Orissa High Court by publishing a photograph and making wholly scurrilous and false statements without knowing the real facts”. “The photograph shows the Chief Justice of the High Court of Orissa speaking to a person at the head of a table with four other persons sitting in a semi-circle. The person sitting at the head of the table is Manoj Bhimani, the Managing Trustee of Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital. The other persons are three doctors of the said heart h o s p i t a l a p a rt fr o m Secretary to CM (5T Secretary) V.K. Pandian. The date on which the photograph was taken was 12th March 2022 at the S a t y a S a i S e b a Organisation, Bhubaneswar. The occasion was the inauguration of a 3-day Free M e g a H e a r t C a m p conducted by the Sathya Sai Heart Hospital of which Bhimani is the head, where Justice M.R. Shah, Judge, Supreme Court of India was invited as the Chief Guest a n d D r J u s t i c e S . Muralidhar, the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court was invited as the Guest of Honour and V.K. Pandian, the 5T Secretary, Government of Odisha was also invited as the Mega H e a rt Camp w a s i n a ss o c i a ti o n wit h t h e Government of Odisha,” the release said.

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