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Justice Soumitra Sen on Thursday filed his reply to the Rajya Sabha Chairman on the findings of an Inquiry Committee that recommended his impeachment. The House Committee was set up after 58 Rajya Sabha MPs led by the Left moved the impeachment motion against him in February 20,2009. Sen challenged the impeachment motion and former chief justice K G Balakrishnans letter written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in August 2008,on the basis of which the MPs moved the motion.The report of the Inquiry Committee was tabled in the House on November 10 and RS Chairman Hamid Ansari gave Sen time till December 9 to file his reply. The 147-page reply repudiated the findings of the Committee,which held him guilty of misappropriation of large sums of money in his capacity as receiver of the Calcutta High Court and misrepresentation of facts. Sen argued in his reply that a receiver cannot be impeached in Parliament.
