In a blog, the former judge had criticised the Bench's judgment in the Soumya rape and murder case, calling it a "grave error". The Bench has summoned Justice Katju to court on November 11. Justice Katju had called the Supreme Court's September 15 verdict a "grave error" not expected of "judges who had been in the legal world for decades". "Even a student of law in a law college knows this elementary principle that hearsay evidence is inadmissible," Justice Katju had written in the blog. Justice Lalit observed that if she had died from the injuries sustained from the jump, Govindaswamy cannot be held guilty of murder.

Source: The Hindu October 17, 2016 11:33 UTC