Speaking at an event organised by Harvard Club of India here, he said allocation of important and sensitive cases to different benches should be done transparently and not in an arbitrary manner.
There must be an alternate mechanism other than impeaching judges, Justice J Chelameswar, the senior-most Supreme Court judge after the Chief Justice of India, said on Saturday.
Speaking at an event organised by Harvard Club of India here, he said allocation of important and sensitive cases to different benches should be done transparently and not in an arbitrary manner.
"We are not questioning his (Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra) authority as master of roster but it should not be exercised in an arbitrary manner but in a transparent manner," Chelameswar said.
Speaking about the January 8 news conference called by him and three other top court judges, Justice Chelameswar was anguished that he failed in what he had set out to achieve. The unprecedented news conference, mounting a virtual revolt against the chief justice and listing a litany of problems that they said were plaguing the country's highest court, had created an uproar in legal circles.
Terming the move a failure, he said: "Despite our best efforts, we could not achieve what we wanted."
The apex court judge also announced that he would not seek employment from the government on his retirement on June 22.
Responding to a question whether he apprehended government blocking the elevation of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India after Justice Dipak Misra retires, he said: "I am not an astrologer. I hope it will not happen. If it happens then it will prove what we had said in the press conference (on January 12, 2018)."
‘Next CJI? I am not an astrologer’
On whether he apprehended government blocking the elevation of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next CJI after Justice Dipak Misra retires, Chelameswar said: “I am not an astrologer. I hope it will not happen. If it happens then it will prove what we had said in the press meet (on Jan 12).”
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