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Stalemate: CJI won’t budge on roster issue

NEW DELHI: Even after Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today met the four senior-most Supreme Court judges, who have accused him of arbitrarily allocating work to colleagues, the stalemate persists.

Stalemate: CJI won’t budge on roster issue

CJI Dipak Misra



Satya Prakash

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 18

Even after Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today met the four senior-most Supreme Court judges, who have accused him of arbitrarily allocating work to colleagues, the stalemate persists.

The meeting between CJI Misra and Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph went on for 15 minutes before they went to their respective courtrooms this morning. Sources said the CJI was not agreeable to the way out on the roster issue suggested by the four judges, who were not ready to budge from their stand.

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This was the second meeting between the CJI and the four judges, the first one being held on January 16. Now there can’t be any further meetings during this week as Justice Chelameswar will not be in the Capital till this weekend, sources said.

Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, MB Lokur and Kurian Joseph had on January 12 held a press conference at Justice Chelameswar’s residence and accused the CJI or arbitrarily allocating work to his colleagues. The situation in the Supreme Court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things had taken place in the last few months, they had said, creating a storm or sorts in legal and political circles.

Meanwhile, the CJI’s Bench refused to take up a petition seeking to restrain the media from publishing issues raised by the four senior-most SC judges at a press conference on January 12, saying it would look into it only after the Registry took it on record and listed it for hearing.

The plea was mentioned for urgent listing and hearing and to restrain “the printing, discussion, politicisation and debate on the subject matter of the press conference dated January 12 with immediate effect to control further damage to the institution”. 

In a related development, the SC Bar Association suggested a “roaster of allotment of matters which should be available in public domain.”

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