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New Delhi: In a bid to contain the spreading disquiet over the elevation of PD Dinakaran, the controversial chief justice of the Karnataka high court, to the apex court, the supreme court collegium may transfer himThe collegium is likely to take a final call on the issue at its meeting on Tuesday. Earlier, the government had rejected its proposal to elevate Dinakaran, who is in the eye of a storm over alleged land grabbing in Tamil Nadu.

A senior lawyer said a commission under the Commission of Inquiry Act should be set up to look into the Dinakaran issue. It should submit its findings within three months.
"The collegium must take a call on this aspect. The procedural impeachment move has too much politics involved and it takes a long time,'' he adds.

On Friday night, justice Dinakaran is believed to have met justice Balakrishnan and some other members of the collegium. He is understood to have termed as "incorrect'' the report of the collector of Thiruvallur in Tamil Nadu relating to alleged land grabbing by him.

Meanwhile, Supreme Court Bar Association president MN Krishnamani has welcomed the Centre's rejection of Dinakaran's elevation to the apex court."I am very happy that the concern expressed by senior lawyers all over the country has evoked the right response from the government,'' he said in a statement.