:dateline:Professor Anup Surendranath, the Deputy Registrar (Research) of the Supreme Court of India has reportedly resigned from his post in protest of the death verdict for�Yakub Memon. Terming the Supreme Court�s verdict as �Judicial Abdication�, Surendranath has said that the moments during�which the court announced�the verdict will be counted as the �darkest hours� of the apex court.
Prof. Surendranath was serving in the National Law University, New Delhi as a Director of Research Project on Death Penalty. He was appointed as Deputy Registrar (Research) in Supreme Court a year ago on contract basis. He submitted his resignation on July 30, day of Memon’s hanging.
A post on Facebook by Professor Surendranath reads, �It would be silly and naive to see the events of the last 24 hours at the Supreme Court as some triumph of the rule of law — the two orders at 4pm on 29th July and 5am on 30th July (and the reasoning adopted therein) are instances of judicial abdication that must count amongst the darkest hours for the Supreme Court of India�.
It may be recalled that hanging of Yakub Memon has raged the minorities in India. A condemnable remark passed by the then IPS officer B. Raman (to whom Yakub Memon surrendered) had sparked stormed debates all over the world. The IPS officer witnessed Yakub�s innocence and termed the SC�s decision as deliverance of injustice to Yakub Memon.�
