Former Indian Revenue Services officer-turned- advocate Abha Singh has slammed former Supreme Court Judge and Press Council chairman Markanday Katju for writing to Maharashtra Governor asking for a pardon to be given to actor Sanjay Dutt who has been sentenced for five years under the Arms Act by the Supreme court.Shredding to pieces Dutt and Katju's defence that the actor had taken the Ak 56 as he was scared for his family's safety, Abha Singh that at the time of the incident Sanjay and his family had 24-hour police protection at their residence in Mumbai."First of all, there is no evidence to show that the Dutt family indeed received threatening calls. Secondly, his father (Sunil Dutt) was an MP and they already had 24-hour police protection. Where was the need for him to take the gun? Plus, he also had grenades with him. Who uses grenades for self defence?" she asked.Singh has written to Maharashtra governor K. Sankaranarayanan countering the points made by Katju and said that there should be no pardon to Sanjay.According to her, Katju's letter to the governor had set a bad precedent as it would be tough for someone like the governor to "undermine his recommendations on any issue, considering the post Katju occupies".Singh said that Katju has seriously harmed the reputation of his office and he should have stepped down before making the demand for Sanjay's pardon."He (Katju) has violated the code of conduct. He is a statutory authority and writing the letter when he is occupying the post is simply not done. Tomorrow, the CBI Director can write such a letter, the Central Vigilance Commissioner can write a letter to another constitutional authority asking for someone who has been convicted of corruption to be pardoned," she said.Describing Katju's arguments for pardoning Sanjay as "highly immature, childish and silly", Abha said that the former Supreme Court Judge did not know the complete facts of the Sanjay Dutt case."Dutt is shown to be some kid, who just did one foolish act. However, the fact is that he was frequently in touch with those who caused the bomb blasts. Even while on bail, Dutt was in touch with Dawood Ibrahim's gangsters on phone. So, it clearly shows that it was not a one-off incident. He could have prevented the blasts and saved more than 200 lives lost if he simply had informed the police of the arms landing in Mumbai," said Singh.The lawyer alleged that the actor had got off very lightly in the case."All those who delivered arms to him and took the arms back from him were charged under TADA. However, he was convicted only under the Arms Act and the CBI did not appeal the judgement. Everyone knows the CBI does the government's bidding. If the CBI was not biased then Sanjay would have got life imprisonment," said Singh, adding, "The country has the right to know why the CBI didn't appeal when Sanjay was not convicted under TADA. The CBI has completely lost its credibility," she said.She also added that the urgency with which Katju wrote the letter to the governor just hours after Dutt's conviction was upheld was suspicious.