Four senior-most Supreme Court judges attend court, Attorney General says 'all settled'

Justices Kurian Joseph, Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan Lokur at the press conference. (Reuters Photo)

NEW DELHI: The four senior Supreme Court judges, who aired their grievances against the Chief Justice of India (CJI) at a press conference, were back to work today, reported news agency PTI.

Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Josephon Monday attended court and took up routine work.

In an unprecedented move, the four judges had on Friday+ publicly alleged irregularities within the apex court and hit out at CJI Dipak Misra's assignment of cases. While they accepted that the move to hold a press conference was highly unusual, they said they were "left with no choice," after receiving no response to a seven-page letter they had sent the CJI.

They raised five grievances, including the distribution of important cases, and selective assignments of important cases based on preference, instead of rationality.

Efforts are on in several quarters to defuse the situation. The Bar Council of India played down the rift+ , calling it an "internal matter which will be resolved soon."

(With inputs from PTI)