After stormy morning meeting, Supreme Court judges get back to work
After stormy morning meeting, Supreme Court judges get back to work
After Friday's tumultuous press conference by the four most senior judges of the Supreme Court where they alleged that sensitive cases were being assigned to 'select benches', all the judges gathered for the first time on Monday morning for the customary tea before the day's work. Even as attorney general K K Venugopal and Bar Council of India chairman Manan Mishra claimed that the crisis, arguably the most serious one to have faced the top judiciary, had blown over, tension hung heavy as the judges sat together for the first time since the insurrection on Friday. The strain was obvious when the uneasy calm was broken by a barrage of angry words from a 'junior judge' who took on the 'famous four' for "bringing disrepute" to the institution and providing "hawkish politicians" a handle to scheme and plot in the judiciary's affairs. Sources quoted the 'junior judge' as saying the least the four could have done was to call for a full-court meeting, where the judges could have discussed the issue and found a solution. "Why did you go to the press without even informing other judges about the grievance of assigning of cases by the CJI to select benches?" he asked.