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Justice Arun Mishra: A Judge Every Chief Justice Wanted by His Side

Justice Arun Mishra is a Supreme Court judge perhaps every Chief Justice of India wanted by his side. CJI Dipak Misra In November 2017, Justice Mishra’s authority as the “master of roster” faced a challenge when a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar passed a judicial order that the medical admissions scam case will be heard by the ‘first five judges’ of the Supreme Court. Justice Mishra did all the talking on the bench before declaring Justice Chelameswar’s order as null and void, and asserting the CJI as the master of the roster. In that interaction, Justice Ranjan Gogoi even nodded to a question if assignment of Judge BH Loya’s death case before Justice Mishra was the trigger. Justice Gogoi defended himself, called allegations malicious and initiated suo motu proceedings, only to post this matter to a bench headed by Justice Mishra in future.

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