Allocation of cases: SC reserves order on Shanti Bhushan’s plea, A-G Venugopal says may lead to chaos

“So far as roster and allocation of cases is concerned, it has to be done by the CJI only,” Venugopal said, adding that “if a number of judges are involved in deciding on allocation of cases, it might lead to ‘chaos'”.

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Earlier this month, a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan had decided to examine Bhushan’s PIL and had sought the assistance of A-G Venugopal as well as Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

Justice J Chelameswar had earlier declined to hear Bhushan’s PIL. “For obvious reasons, I will not deal with this,” Chelameswar had said to advocate Prashant Bhushan who appeared before him on the PIL.

Also read: Won’t hear PIL on CJI powers, don’t want my order reversed in 24 hrs, says Justice Chelameswar

“Two months for my retirement, I don’t want it to be said that I am doing certain things because I want to grab some office,” Chelameswar had said.

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