NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India H L Dattu on Friday ordered “all possible security shield” to judges of the Supreme Court after an anonymous letter-threat was thrown into the residence of Justice Dipak Misra, one of the judges on the bench which rejected Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon’s last-gasp petition to stay his execution.

“The moment I got information about the letter containing the threat being thrown into the premises of one of my judges, I immediately instructed the authorities concerned to take adequate and appropriate measures for providing security to the judge concerned and other colleagues,” he told TOI from Puri over phone.

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Asked whether such threats after deciding a case could affect the morale of judges, the CJI said, “It should not. It will not. We judges believe in karma.”

Asked whether security for the Supreme Court was adequate, Justice Dattu said he had asked the security committee of the apex court to conduct a detailed survey of the requirements and contingency plan for the premises.

“I inquired from the officials concerned and learnt that the security arrangements were reviewed more than six years ago. I told them that if that was the case, we must have a fresh detailed analysis of the security requirements of the Supreme Court and its premises and put in place necessary arrangements to make the security as fool-proof as possible,” he said.

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The fresh survey of the SC’s security arrangements comes in the wake of the threat letter to Justice Mishra, which is being investigated by Delhi Police. The letter was found in the backyard of his residence by security guards.

Delhi Police said it was thrown over the boundary wall at a place which was unguarded and was not covered in the sweep of CCTV cameras. According to police, the short note in Hindi purportedly conveyed that the judge bore a threat to his life.

The Justice Mishra-headed bench, also comprising Justices P C Pant and Amitava Roy, had held an unprecedented post-midnight hearing in the Supreme Court on July 30 and dismissed Yakub’s plea for stay of his execution. The hearing commenced at 3.30 am and ended at 5 am, two hours before the scheduled 7 am execution.

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