Delhi bar bodies term presser by SC judges as unfortunate

New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) The Coordination Committee of theDelhi District Court Bar Associations today termed as"unfortunate" the presser by four sen...

New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) The Coordination Committee of theDelhi District Court Bar Associations today 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.

The coordination committee of lawyers of six districtcourts in the national capital after a meeting passed aresolution and said that an internal mechanism should bedeveloped to settle such disputes in the judiciary and ajudicial accountability bill should be brought to prevent suchincidents.

The panel said it would hold discussions with the barassociations across the country on the issue and threatened totake to the streets if the crisis was not resolved in 10 days.

"We, hereby, resolve that the Chief Justice of Indiashould have kept his house in order and the grievances of thefour seniormost judges should have been addressed by the CJIimmediately," a release, from the committee, said.

In an unprecedented move, four senior Supreme Courtjudges -- justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur andKurian Joseph -- had on Friday mounted a virtual revoltagainst CJI Dipak Misra at a press meet here, raisingquestions on "selective" case allocation and certain judicialorders, sending shockwaves across the judiciary and polity.PTIUK PKS ABA MNL RKSSC.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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