5th Anniversary of Supreme Court Judges’ Press Conference: What Has Changed and What Has Not?
Live LawThe fifth anniversary of the ‘historical’ press conference by four Supreme Court Judges - held on January 12, 2018 in New Delhi- was yesterday. The 2018 press conference invited unusual attention because it was unprecedented that four senior-most puisne Supreme Court Judges-namely Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Jasti Chelameswar, Madan B.Lokur and Kurian Joseph- rose in revolt against their own Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, alleging arbitrary decision-making in his administrative capacity, and in allocation of cases for hearing by Judges. One of the four Judges, Ranjan Gogoi, wrote in his memoirs, Justice for the Judge: An Autobiography, that the decision to hold the press conference, was on the spur of the moment, taken after Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to reverse his order to allocate Judge Loya case to Justice Arun Mishra. It is debatable whether the 2018 press conference would be a precedent - or an unhealthy precedent - for Judges of the Supreme Court, if ever they are faced with a similar Chief Justice of India, like Justice Dipak Misra. 'Democracy in peril' The four Judges, in their press conference, also alleged that the democracy itself is in peril, because of the arbitrary administrative decisions of the then Chief Justice, Dipak Misra.
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