New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Former Supreme Court judge and Opposition vice-presidential candidate B Sudershan Reddy on Saturday responded to Home Minister Amit Shah's criticism over the Salwa Judum verdict, saying he had merely authored the judgment, which was the decision of the top court and not an individual opinion.

Shah, citing the verdict during a speech in Kerala on Friday, had alleged that Reddy "helped Naxalism" and claimed that Left Wing Extremism would have ended by 2020 had the judgment not been delivered.

Reddy, in an interview with PTI, said Shah's remarks would not have been made had he gone through the entire ruling.

He emphasised that another judge sat on the bench alongside him and that repeated attempts to overturn the ver...