On issue of placing Justice Joseph after Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Vineet Saran in the notification by Centre, Several senior judges met CJI on Monday to express dissatisfaction over the issue.
According to a PTI report, judges, including Justices M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, who are members of the collegium, met the CJI at the judges’ lounge during the tea before start of the day’s working. Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who is the senior-most judge after the CJI, was not present as he was on leave on Monday.
Sources told PTI that the CJI assured the judges that he would consult Justice Gogoi and take up the issue with the Centre. Besides the CJI and Justices Gogoi, Lokur and Joseph, the fifth member of the Collegium is Justice A K Sikri.
The Centre on Friday last came out with the notification on appointment of three judges to the apex court by putting at number three the seniority of Justice KM Joseph.
