NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's vice president on Monday rejected an unprecedented petition by seven opposition parties to impeach the top judge for "misbehaviour", saying that the allegations were "neither tenable nor admissible".
The decision of Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, who chairs the upper house of parliament, was a relief for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which had called it a "revenge petition" moved in response to a reprieve the ruling party's chief won from the Supreme Court in another case.
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