The Supreme Court collegium has decided to drop its recommendation for elevating Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, facing charges of land grabbing, to the apex court, bringing to end months of controversy over the move. Quoting sources, PTI reports that a decision to this regard has been taken.<br/><br/>The collegium led by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and including Justice S H Kapadia, Tarun Chatterjee, Altamas Kabir and R V Raveendran met last evening and decided to take back the recommendation for his elevation.<br/><br/>Earlier, the Law Ministry had rejected the August 27 recommendation of the collegium and asked it to reconsider the decision.<br/><br/>Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari had yesterday admitted a notice of the motion by MPs to start impeachment proceedings against Dinakaran over land-grabbing allegations.<br/><br/>The Chairman is expected to constitute a three-member committee comprising a Supreme Court judge, a high court chief justice and a jurist to examine the notice and give its views before the impeachment process is carried forward.<br/><br/>Dinakaran, who has kept away from judicial work, has ruled out his resignation and termed as unfortunate the impeachment motion tabled against him in Rajya Sabha.<br/><br/>Dinakaran said that the allegations against him are without any substance or without any basis.<br/><br/>