There has been an opinion among some opposition parties that key issues raised by the four senior-most judges concerning the functioning of Supreme Court have not been addressed.
Opposition parties including the Congress and Trinamool Congress have been deliberating over bringing an impeachment motion against the CJI in the Rajya Sabha.
During the last hearing in February, the apex court had said it will deal the case as a pure land dispute and refused to hear it on day-to-day basis.
While PILs would be listed only before the bench headed by CJI , there is an overlapping of work assigned to different benches - as social justice matters would be listed both before the bench of CJI and that headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur
"In this situation, there is no other option but to correct this institution (the Supreme Court) in case there is anything wrong. This can be done by an impeachment motion against the Chief Justice," CPI-M leader Yechury said.
According to the list of business released by the Supreme Court, besides CJI Dipak Misra, justices AM Khanwilkar DY Chandrachud will also be on the bench.
The four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- took up their respective business on the first working day of the top court after the January 12 press conference.
The four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court had on last Friday addressed the media in an unprecedented manner to express their anguish over CJI Dipak Misra’s style of functioning.
The Indian judiciary was thrown into a turmoil on Friday when four SC judges -- J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, MB Lokur and Kurian Joseph convened an unprecedented press conference to complain about "selective" case allocation by CJI Dipak Misra.
After a 50-minute meeting with the CJI, BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who headed the delegation, told reporters that the meeting took place in a congenial atmosphere and that Justice Misra assured them that everything would be sorted out soon.
"We have been told that there is no crisis. It is an internal matter which will be resolved soon. I am sure a solution will be found in 2-3 days," Manan said after Bar Council delegation's meeting with Justice Chelameswar.
Justice Joseph noted that the matter was not brought to the attention of the President as he has no Constitutional responsibility over the SC or the judges of the apex court.
Expressing grave concern over the differences between the senior judges and the CJI, SCBA said that all PILs should be looked into either by the CJI or senior judges who form part of collegium
Manan Kumar Mishra, Chairman of Bar Council of India, said that a seven-member committee will be set up that will meet all the four judges and CJI Dipak Misra.
The two judges -- Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Ranjan Gogoi, also rejected suggestions that the four of them had violated discipline by addressing the media.
Asked whether their act had amounted to a violation of discipline, Gogoi refused to comment, saying, "I have to catch a flight to Lucknow. I cannot talk."
AG KK Venugopal reiterated that he is hopeful that all judges, including the CJI, would rise to the occasion and "wholy neutralise" the "divisiveness".
Nripendra Misra was seen on Saturday sitting in his car outside Justice Misra's residence in New Delhi.
Unless this institution is preserved, "democracy will not survive" in this country, Chelameswar said in the unscheduled press conference, in the first of its kind event in independent India.
In his brief statement, Rahul Gandhi said that all citizens who love the idea of justice and believe in the Supreme Court were looking at the developments, and therefore it was important that those were addressed.
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