(Eds: Dropping words in para 2)New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) Chief Justice of India DipakMisra today separately met high-level delegations of top twolawyers' bodies -- BCI and SCBA -- and assured them that thecrisis erupting after the revolt by the four seniormost judgesagainst him would be sorted out soon and congeniality wouldprevail.
A seven-member Bar Council India (BCI) panel led by itschairman Manan Kumar Mishra had a 50-minute meeting with theCJI after hectic parleys with several apex court judges, withwhom they shared the views of the apex body of the Barregulating the lawyers.
Coming out of the official residence of the CJI at 5,Krishna Menon Marg here, the BCI chairman told reporters thatthe meeting with the head of the judiciary was held in acongenial atmosphere and that Justice Misra assured thateverything would be sorted out soon.
"We met CJI in a congenial atmosphere and he saideverything will be sorted out soon," Mishra said.
He also said that before meeting the CJI, the panel alsodiscussed the crisis plaguing the higher judiciary withseveral other judges, including three of the four seniormostjudges who had on Friday held an unprecedented pressconference.
The BCI chairman said the panel met Justices JChelameswar, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, and they alsoassured that everything would be sorted out.
He did not mention whether the panel had any talks withJustice Ranjan Gogoi, who was not in the city.
Mishra said they would hold a press conference tomorrowto apprise about the BCI's day-long parleys with the judges ofthe apex court in the wake of the crisis.
Earlier, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) presidentVikas Singh met the CJI and handed over a resolution of theapex court lawyers' body on the crisis.
The senior lawyer told PTI that he handed over a copy ofthe SCBA resolution to the CJI, who assured him that he wouldlook into it.
"I met the CJI and handed over a copy of the resolution.
He said that he would look into it and ensure there wascongeniality in the Supreme Court at the earliest," Singh toldPTI after his 15-minute meeting with the CJI.
Singh expressed hope that all judges of the apex courtwould give consideration to its resolution in which theassociation asked for a full court discussion to defuse thepresent crisis plaguing the higher judiciary.
Hours before the hectic parleys ended with the meetingbetween the CJI and the BCI panel, a coordination committee ofthe Delhi district court bar associations termed as"unfortunate" the presser by four seniormost judges of theSupreme Court and said it would take to the streets if thecrisis was not resolved within 10 days.
Several judges of the apex court also met each other overthe ongoing crisis during the day.
Two top court judges -- Justices S A Bobde and LNageswara Rao -- met Justice J Chelameswar, who had led thefour judges in the unprecedented press conference at hisofficial residence here, sources said.
The four apex court judges -- justices Chelameswar,Gogoi, Lokur and Joseph -- had raised a litany of problems,including the assigning of cases in the apex court, and saidthere were certain issues afflicting the country's highestcourt.
The BCI panel also had a brief meeting with Justice ArunMishra, who has been in the focus for hearing PILs seeking aprobe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya.
Loya, who was dealing with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fakeencounter case, had died of cardiac arrest three years ago.
The four judges had questioned the allocation of Loya'scase to Justice Mishra, bypassing senior judges.
The sources said that the full court of the Supreme Courtwill in all possibility deliberate upon the situation arisingout of the controversial presser of its four seniormost judgeswho virtually revolted against the CJI tomorrow.
Full court mechanism is one in which deliberations by allthe judges of the top court takes place in-house and not inthe open.
They said the full court deliberation has becomenecessary as the four judges who went public with theirgrievances, in all probability, did not have the support ofthe other apex court judges. The Supreme Court, at present,has 25 judges including the Chief Justice. The sanctionedstrength of the apex court is 31, including the CJI.
"It is for sure that they (judges) will have to go for afull court tomorrow. In full court, the CJI has the majoritythat is why these four judges have not demanded full courtdeliberation on their grievances," one of the sources said.
They cited a report appearing in the media that one ofthe judges, who is in the line of ascension to the post of theCJI, has also expressed his reservation about the presser heldon Friday last by the four judges.
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