A controversy erupted Monday (July 21) over an allegation by former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, who is due to retire as Chairman of Press Council of India in October, that three ex-Chief Justices of India made "improper compromises" during UPA rule in retaining a judge in Tamil Nadu under corruption cloud. The allegation on how an unnamed additional judge of Madras High Court was given extension at the instance of UPA-I government owing to pressure from an ally, a "Tamil Nadu party", apparently DMK, and then confirmed as a permanent judge led to an uproar in Parliament by AIADMK MPs even as questions were raised by parties like Congress on its timing. Katju made the charge while alleging how the three former CJIs--Justices R C Lahoti, Y K Sabharwal and K G Balakrishnan --made "improper compromises" in allowing the judge to continue in office despite an "adverse" Intelligence Bureau(IB) report on allegations of corruption against him. There was no immediate reaction from the three ex-CJIs. Katju, who was a Supreme Court judge from 2006 to 2011, was appointed as the PCI Chairman on October 5, 2011 and is due to retire on October 4 this year. Katju said he came to know that the reason for all this was that at that time the UPA-I government was dependent on allies for support and one of them was a 'Tamil Nadu party', one of whose leaders was given bail by the additional judge when he was a district judge. TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami speaks exclusively to former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju about why he chose to break his silence on the issue after 10 years.