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CJI Dipak Misra breaks silence on SC Judge dissent; says very easy to attack and destroy a system

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The Supreme Court of India organized Independence Day celebrations inside the court premises on Wednesday.

 Chief Justice Dipak Mishra unfurled the tricolour and following that held a press conference, where he finally broke his silence over the January 12 protest by senior Supreme Court judges Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, speaking about the institution in his address says, "To criticise attack and destroy a system is easy. What is difficult is to transform it. It is necessary to be productive in a state of counter-productive times."

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says that larger perspective of a PIL should not be lost.  "High costs have been imposed lately in fly by PILs, but the larger perspective of PILs should not be lost," he said.

The law minister also stressed on how live streaming lawsuits was a good step to reduce the crowd. “The judiciary has a big role, every person knows that their rights are protected,” he added.

In January this year, Four senior judges of the Supreme Court today mounted a virtual revolt against the chief justice, listing a litany of problems that they said are afflicting the country's highest court and warned they could destroy Indian democracy.

The unprecedented move at a joint news conference by the four judges including now retired Justice J Chelameswar, who was then the second senior judge after the Chief Justice of India, left the judiciary and observers stunned, leaving uncertain how this open dissension in the hallowed institution would be resolved.

Justice Chelameswar himself described as an "extraordinary event" the news conference during which he said "sometimes administration of the Supreme Court is not in order and many things which are less than desirable have happened in the last few months."

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