Day 2 of crisis in Supreme Court: Top developments

1. The Bar Council of India (BCI) today shaped a seven-member group to satisfy all judges of the Supreme Court, barring the five seniormost judges, to talk about the present crisis in the apex courtroom.

2. Further, it passed a answer saying no political birthday celebration or leaders should take undue good thing about the situation coming up out of the press conference by 4 senior Supreme Court judges.


3. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) also met and expressed "grave concern" over the differences between the senior judges and Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, whilst also paying attention to issues raised by the 4 senior judges.


4. The SCBA passed two resolutions: the first saying the differences of four judges with the CJI should be regarded as by the full bench of the apex courtroom, and the second suggesting all PILs to be taken up most effective by the CJI or benches led by contributors of the SC collegium.


5. In an exceptional move in the country's judicial history, Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph had held a press conference the day gone by and fixed a riot towards CJI Dipak Misra, questioning him at the 'selective' allocation of circumstances and likely judicial orders passed by him.


6. Former Supreme Court pass judgement on N Santosh Hegde "wholly" condemned the action of four senior judges in going public over interior matters of the judiciary, saying it affected the popularity of the institution and may quantity to contempt of courtroom.


7. Justice Kurian and Justice Gogoi asserted that there was no constitutional crisis in the apex courtroom. Kurian also stressed out that the problems they had raised required no exterior intervention and could be resolved by the judiciary itself.

"This is not an issue that requires mediation from outside. This is an internal issue of the institution and the institution will sort it out. A correction inside the institution is what is required," he was quoted as saying by ANI.


eight. Attorney general Okay Okay Venugopal followed a good outlook and seen that the problems in the most sensible judiciary shall be settled quicker than expected.

"Unity among Supreme Court judges will return by Monday. We hope the entire issue will be settled in the larger interest of the institution. Judges are persons of wisdom and statesmanship and experience. We hope they won't allow the issue to escalate," Venugopal stated.


9. Meanwhile, the Congress cornered Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call for a proof after it was widely reported that his main secretary grew to become up on the CJI's place of abode an afternoon after the presser held by the 4 SC judges.

"As PM's Principal Secretary, Nripendra Misra visits CJI's residence at 5, Krishna Menon Marg; PM must answer the reason for sending this special messenger to Chief Justice of India," the birthday celebration's leader spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted previous in the day.


10. DMK working president M Okay Stalin referred to as for President Ram Nath Kovind's intervention should the aggrieved judges and the CJI be unable to resolve their differences internally.

"In case, if a stage comes wherein judges could not resolve the issue, President Kovind should intervene and resolve it," Stalin told PTI.

Judges of the top courtroom should cling dialogue and make efforts to resolve the issue to safeguard democracy, he added.









(With inputs from Agencies)
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