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New roster permits others to hear PILs

The roster was last amended on February 1 this year and change was anticipated when Justice Gogoi took over, who previously claimed to be a victim of arbitrary allocation of cases.

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Hours after he assumed office as 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Wednesday made a point that he had earlier rebelled against. He allowed the senior-most judge after him to also hear PILs and Letter Petitions that were previously heard by the CJI alone.

Releasing the new Roster of Work for Fresh Cases, CJI Gogoi kept with him all PILs and Letter Petitions but also allowed his senior-most colleague, Justice Madan B Lokur, to hear all such cases with him if needed. On January 12 this year, Justice Gogoi and his three other colleagues had at a press conference publicly protested then Chief Justice Dipak Misra's decision to allocate politically sensitive cases to a particular bench. Now when he is at the helm of affairs, though PILs still remain with him, the exception that he will reserve the right to allocate to his next senior judge.

The roster was last amended on February 1 this year and change was anticipated when Justice Gogoi took over, who previously claimed to be a victim of arbitrary allocation of cases.

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