SC judges against CJI: CJI meets 4 ‘brother’ judges
Four days after four of his senior-most brother-Judges held an unprecedented press conference after a tiff with him, in which they highlighted the manner in which he was breaching institutional integrity and tinkering with well-established systems, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra Tuesday morning reached out to the four Judges. After a short meeting, which lasted about 25 minutes, it was decided to meet again tomorrow.
Sources said the CJI told the four Judges — Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph — that he was open to a detailed discussion on all outstanding that are affecting the judicial administration of the apex court.
However, he didn’t come out with any response to the issues raised by the Judges.
The CJI, however, didn’t offer any concrete measure to assuage the four Judges.
He also did not signal to them his eagerness to make things more transparent in the functioning of the SC.
Among the issues flagged by the four senior Judges is the blatant disregard for established norms by the CJI in reassigning sensitive cases being heard by their benches to selected benches headed by relatively junior Judges.
The meeting came after yesterday’s impromptu meeting of almost all Supreme Court Judges …read more
