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CJI Dipak Misra makes public SC judges' roster

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday adopted a roster system for the allocation of matters to judges with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra deciding to keep to himself the public interest litigation (PIL) cases.
The order of the CJI was made public on the official website of the apex court.
The Supreme Court roster for judges has been made public for the first time in the shadow of a rift after the Chief Justice was publicly criticized by four judges who are senior most after him - Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, MB Lokur and Kurian Joseph.
The new roster system will begin from Monday and will apply to new cases.
The Chief Justice will hear all PILs or Public Interest Litigation and cases related to elections, criminal cases, social justice cases and the appointment of constitutional functionaries.
Justice J Chelameswar, the number two judge of the Supreme Court, who called the media to his home for the January 12 press conference targeting the Chief Justice, will hear cases related to labour, indirect taxes, criminal cases and consumer protection.
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is tipped to be the next Chief Justice, will hear cases related to labour, indirect taxes, crime, personal law and religion.
Justice Madan Lokur has been assigned cases about ecology, consumer protection, mines and minerals, personal Law, armed forces and paramilitary forces.
Against the name of Justice Kurien Joseph, the roster lists cases of labour, crime and family law matters.
Soon after the new roster was introduced, senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan alleged that Chief Justice of India has allocated important cases for himself and distributed mundane cases to rest of the judges.
Prashant Bhushan tweeted, " In the new roster for allocation of cases announced by Chief Justice of India, all politically sensitive cases, including PILs, Election cases, Appointment of Constitutional and Statutory functionaries including law officers, Commissions of Inquiry, to be heard by CJI alone. Others to hear mundane cases only.
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