SC: Deputy registrar quit to pursue other interests

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Sunday said Anup Surendranath left his assignment as deputy registrar (research) midway to pursue other interests, and termed reports that he had quit in protest at the execution of Yakub Memon as “incorrect and highly misleading”.
“In fact, a faculty from National Law University (Dr Anup Surendranath), who was working on short-term assignment on deputation in Supreme Court as deputy registrar, has been repatriated to his parent institution on his own request as he wanted to pursue his interest in research projects in which he is involved in,” the SC said in a statement.
The SC cited Surendranath’s resignation letter in which he thanked the apex court for “the wonderful opportunity over the last one year”.
However, after resigning, Surendranath had said on Facebook that he was disillusioned by the July 29 and July 30 pre-dawn orders rejecting Yakub's pleas and termed it as “judicial abdication”.
“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 4 pm on 29th July and 5 am 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,” Surendranath wrote on Facebook.