(Eds: Updating with details of BCI panel's meet with CJI)New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) Chief Justice of India (CJI)Dipak Misra today met a seven-member delegation of the BarCouncil of India (BCI) and assured it that the crisisfollowing a virtual revolt by four seniormost Supreme Courtjudges against him would be sorted out soon.
After a 50-minute meeting with the CJI, BCI chairmanManan Kumar Mishra, who headed the delegation, told reportersthat the meeting took place in a congenial atmosphere and thatJustice Misra assured them that everything would be sorted outsoon.
"We met the CJI in a congenial atmosphere and he saidthat everything would be sorted out soon," he said.
Mishra added that before meeting the CJI, the panel hadalso discussed the crisis plaguing the higher judiciary withother judges, including three of the four seniormost judges,who had mounted a virtual revolt against Justice Misra at anunprecedented press conference here on Friday.
He said the panel met justices J Chelameswar, M B Lokur,and Kurian Joseph and that they also assured it thateverything would be sorted out.
Mishra did not mention whether the panel had a talk withthe fourth rebellious judge, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who hadgone out of station after Friday's presser.
He added that the media would be informed about the BCI'sday-long parleys with the Supreme Court judges at a pressconference tomorrow.
Hectic parleys took place throughout the day among theapex court judges as well over the crisis that has eruptedafter the virtual revolt by the four seniormost judges of thecourt against the CJI.
Two top court judges -- justices S A Bobde and LNageswara Rao -- met Justice Chelameswar, who had led the fourjudges at the unprecedented press conference, at his officialresidence here, sources said.
The BCI panel also had a brief meeting with Justice ArunMishra, who is in focus for hearing a PIL seeking a probe intothe death of special CBI judge B H Loya.
Loya, who was dealing with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh "fakeencounter" case, had allegedly died of a cardiac arrest inNagpur on December 1, 2014.
The four rebellious judges had raised a question over theallocation of Loya's case to Justice Mishra.
The four judges had flagged a litany of problems,including the assigning of cases in the apex court, and saidthere were certain issues afflicting the country's highestcourt. PTI ABA MNL PKS UK RKSRC.
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