SC Re-affirms Superiority Of CJI, Dismisses Plea Against "Arbitrary" Allocation Of Work To Benches & Constitution Of Benches [Read Judgment]

Reaffirming the superiority of the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court today dismissed a petition which questioned the unilateral power of the CJI to constitute benches "arbitrarily" and allocate work to different benches and which sought framing of proper rules for it.You Can Read the detailed story based on the Judgment HereSeniority In Terms Of Appointment Has No Bearing On Which Cases A. Reaffirming the superiority of the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court today dismissed a petition which questioned the unilateral power of the CJI to constitute benches "arbitrarily" and allocate work to different benches and which sought framing of proper rules for it. https://twitter.com/pbhushan1/status/983943400159371266 The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud was passing orders on a petition filed by a Lucknow-based lawyer Ashok Pande seeking a mandamus to the Registrar of the Supreme Court to evolve a procedure for constituting benches and allotment of jurisdiction to different benches. The petition “With the press conference of the four senior-most judges of the supreme court the matter of preparation of the set rules governing the powers of the chief justice with respect to the formation of benches and vesting of jurisdiction came in public domain and hence this petition is in national/public interest”, it said. cellaneous court should be constituted and all the matters of that jurisdiction should be listed before that bench cellaneous court should be constituted and all the matters of that jurisdiction should be listed before that bench The four senior-most judges Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Kurian Joseph and Madan B Lokur had in the historic press conference on January 12 this year questioned the manner in which CJI allocated cases “selectively” to “benches of his preferences”.