{"id":29969,"date":"2018-10-26T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29969"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:44:53","slug":"sc-to-examine-plea-on-master-of-roster-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-to-examine-plea-on-master-of-roster-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to examine plea on \u2018master of roster\u2019 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sc-to-examine-plea-on-master-of-roster-issue\/article23532658.ece\">SC to examine plea on \u2018master of roster\u2019 issue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a petition filed by former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan to declare that the authority of the Chief Justice of India as \u201cmaster of roster\u201d should not be reduced to an absolute, singular and arbitrary power<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sought help of AG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bench seeks help of A-G on petition filed by former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan against \u2018absolute discretion\u2019 of CJI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier judgments on the issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bench will hear the petition despite two separate judgments by the Supreme Court in November 2017 and on April 11, 2018, upholding the Chief Justice\u2019s complete administrative authority to allocate cases and constitute Benches<\/li>\n<li>Both judgments were pronounced by Benches led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra.<\/li>\n<li>The April 11 verdict called the CJI an \u201cinstitution in himself\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Judges Case ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Judges Case of 1998:<\/strong> The Supreme Court itself had interpreted the term \u201cChief Justice of India\u201d to mean the entire Collegium for the purposes of appointments and transfers of judges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is asked in the petition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To clarify the administrative authority of the Chief Justice of India as the master of roster and for the laying down of the procedure and principles to be followed in preparing the roster for allocation of cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC to examine plea on \u2018master of roster\u2019 issue What has happened? The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a petition filed by former Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan to declare that the authority of the Chief Justice of India as \u201cmaster of roster\u201d should not be reduced to an absolute, singular and arbitrary&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-to-examine-plea-on-master-of-roster-issue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC to examine plea on \u2018master of roster\u2019 issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704780405},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}