New Delhi: Four senior most judges of the Supreme Court, who had hurled accusations against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on several issues, Tuesday met among themselves, amid hectic parleys between other judges to resolve the crisis.
Their meeting came hours after the CJI reached out to them at the apex court lounge and held parleys with them over tea, before starting the day’s proceedings in the SC.
It is learnt that Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph had a meeting but nothing concrete has emerged. The meeting in the evening took place at the residence of one of these judges.
However, the outcome of the deliberations is not known. Sources said the judges are likely to meet the CJI tomorrow morning as usual and probably some more deliberations are on the cards as hectic parleys are on to restore normalcy in the top court’s functioning. “As of now, nothing concrete has emerged,” sources close to the four judges said.
Some of the judges, lower in the apex court hierarchy, are in favour of some rapprochement at the earliest on the grounds that the reputation of the judiciary is at stake.
The four judges had in an unprecedented press conference January 12 raised a litany of problems, including the assigning of cases in the apex court, and said there were certain issues afflicting the country’s highest court.
A senior advocate said there was a need to resolve the crisis as several important PILs are likely to be heard from tomorrow before the constitution bench of the Supreme Court. Others said even the matter relating to the death of special judge B H Loya should not have been heard in such a surcharged atmosphere. Senior advocate and SCBA president Vikas Singh had wondered why some activist lawyers were making a fuss about assignment of sensitive cases in the apex court to judges.
PTI
