( 51 ) REGARDING the contents of the impugned letter of 3rd June, 1974 Mr. S. N. Mehta was at great pains to explain that the respondent had only used wrong words, that his statements are so wide as could not make any reasonable person, think poorly of the judiciary. After hearing him at length on this question we have not been able to find any force in the laboured explanations he attempted. After inviting the Registrar's attention to his own earlier letter the respondent opened up with the statement "it is rightly said that the present-day administrators of justice have converted the judiciary into a slaughter house of justice". He sought to reinforce it by an earlier statement which he made in what he himself chose to describe as a "leading" article published by him as early as 1968 calling upon the Law Ministry to "hang these judges at the nearest lamp post and burn the posts also, so that they may not contaminate others with their perjury". Mr. S. N. Mehta would like these observations to one referred to by P. T. Rama Nayar, C. J. in the majority judgment in Namboodripad's (17) case that nobody would, for instance, take seriously a statement that "all judges take bribes". But

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