New Delhi, July 6 (IBNS): Responding to a petition filed by former law minister Shanti Bhushan, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has the power to allocate cases, media reports said.
The top court has referred to the CJI as "master of roster".
Bhushan had called for a panel to decide on who has the power of assigning cases.
Three months ago, a three-judge bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra held that the CJI has sole power to decide on cases allocation.
The SC has been quoted by NDTV, "There is no dispute that the Chief Justice is the master of roster and allocates cases to Judges. The constitution is silent on the Chief Justice. Conventions and judgements over the time and accepted by all stake holders that the Chief Justice is first among judges and senior most."
In January, four senior judges of the top court- Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph- had called an unprecedented press conference to allege that cases with far reaching consequences were assigned to selective judges.
Justice Chelameswar, who represented the four judges in the press conference, said they had approached the CJI with a letter but failed to convince him.
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