'I don't need a certificate from Veerappa Moily. It is enough if I get a certificate from the people of Karnataka,' said Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, who is highly regarded in the state for his crusade against corruption.
Reacting sharply to Union law minister M Veerappa Moily's reported adverse remarks against him, Karnataka lok ayukta N Santosh Hegde today said he did not need a 'certificate' from the Congress leader on the works done by him.
"I don't need a certificate from Veerappa Moily. It is enough if I get a certificate from the people of Karnataka," said Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, who is highly regarded in the state for his crusade against corruption.
He was reacting to Moily's reported comments that Karnataka lok ayukta's action against the corrupt was "superficial" and that he could have done more.
"What has Justice Hegde done so far apart from making statements," Moily was quoted as saying yesterday.
Speaking to reporters after a function here, Hegde said, "Veerappa Moily does not have to give me a certificate".
"I think he may have forgotten that it was I who argued for him and got him out of the JMM scam (payoffs case) in a Delhi court when he was the chief minister without charging a fee of one rupee," Hegde said.
He said he did not know in what context Moily made the comment but added that he would send statistics on the work done by the lok ayukta to the Union minister tomorrow.
Moily was one of the accused in the Rs3.5 crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case in which money was allegedly paid to JMM Lok Sabha members to buy their support to the PV Narasimha Rao government in 1993 when it faced a no confidence motion.
Moily, along with other accused including Rao, was however, acquitted.
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