New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) A Bar Council of India paneltoday met Supreme Court judge Arun Mishra and discussed thecrisis in the apex judiciary.
Justice Mishra was assigned by Chief Justice of IndiaDipak Misra a PIL relating to the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
Four senior Supreme Court judges -- J Chelameswar, RanjanGogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- had on Friday mounted avirtual revolt against the CJI at a press meet here, raisingquestions on "selective" case allocation and certain judicialorders, sending shockwaves across the judiciary and polity.
The panel led by BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra arrivedat Justice Mishra's residence at around 2 p.m. and discussedthe crisis during a short meeting.
The BCI delegation had earlier met justices Chelameswar,R K Agrawal, A M Khanwilkar and other top court judges and islikely to meet Chief Justice Misra.
Two top court judges -- justices S A Bobde and LNageswara Rao -- also met Justice Chelameswar, who had led thefour judges in the unprecedented press conference on Friday athis official residence here, sources said.
The meeting of these judges took place soon after theseven-member delegation of the BCI, the regulatory body oflawyers, met Justice Chelameswar at his residence to discussthe crisis that has hit the judiciary.
A BCI source said that the BCI delegation's meetings withthe judges will be on till late in the evening as some of thejudges are away from Delhi.
The apex lawyers' body had yesterday held a meeting todiscuss the developments that surfaced after the January12 press conference by the four seniormost apex court judgesPTI MNL ABA PKSSC.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.