CJI won't recuse himself from administrative, judicial work
April 22, 2018  11:36
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Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra is learned to have decided not to recuse himself from administrative and judicial work in the Supreme Court, feeling reassured by the support from a large number of senior advocates and lawyers who have rallied behind him against the removal motion of Congress-led opposition parties.

SC sources said that Justice Misra maintains that the removal motion against him, based on frivolous allegations, has been propped up for political considerations and to deter him from discharging his duties as the CJI. They also said that he is in no mood to oblige those who have engineered the dubious pretext to get him to quit.

With Congress-aligned lawyers, like former attorney general K Parasaran and his son Mohan, the former solicitor general, as well as senior advocate Mahalaxmi Pavani, daughter-in-law of the late P P Rao, backing him, the CJI, sources said, is feeling vindicated that he has done no wrong.

SC sources said the CJI is of the opinion that he would reconsider his stand if the Rajya Sabha chairman too fails to see through, what they called, the game being played by Congress, which is annoyed with the CJI for not giving in to belligerence by certain party-affiliated lawyers to coerce the court into accepting demands for a year-long adjournment of a sensitive case, and admits the motion. Till that time the CJI will continue with his administrative and judicial work, a source said.
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