Even before the dust about CJI's wife's land scam in Madhya Pradesh has not settled, we have come to know of yet another land scam involving the family of. Dr. AS Anand. In this matter also he was involved as one of the petitioners (see document1). When the present CJI was posted as the Chief Justice J&K High Court, he along with 8 other family members filed a writ petition no 58 / 83 on 1.2.83 seeking quashment of the provisions of the J&K Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976.The writ petition was admitted and the state govt. was directed vide stay order dt 3.2.83 (see document2) not to interfere with the possession of the land which was to be vested in the state govt. as per the provisions of the Act.

In March, 1983 itself the state govt. filed their reply pointing out that the Hon'ble Supreme Court had already decided in AIR 1983 / SC / 920, that the provisions of Agrarian Act 1976 are not ultra vires of the constitution. But surprisingly, the Writ Petition never came up for hearing thereafter. Like it was done in Madhya Pradesh, here too the state goverment co-operated with Dr. Anand's plan and did not