Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was appointed as the next Chief Justice of India on Friday and will have a tenure of 14 months. The President is pleased to appoint Justice Dattu as the CJI with effect from September 28, 2014, the law ministry announced in New Delhi.
A notice by the office of Supreme Court Secretary General also said that the report of the committee constituted as part of the in-house procedure is not liable to be made public.
The top court rejected the Centre's vehement contention that there was no general or fundamental right to privacy under the Constitution.
The bench said it was necessary that question of 'judicial independence is accounted for in the balancing exercise' with RTI.
Speculation over Justice Gogoi's appointment as the next CJI arose after the court's four most senior judges, including Justice Gogoi, called a press conference in January and criticised Justice Misra on various issues.
Justice Chelameswar said the reasons were too obvious and he would not like to deal with the matter.
With a term ending in January 2017, he has to move fast to tackle the tough tasks cut out for him, says M J Antony.
At his farewell function, CJI Dipak Misra said that tears of a poor man is equal to tears of a rich man.
The bench said it will take up the matter for hearing on Thursday.
He also made it clear that judiciary cannot depend on executive in choosing judges.
A glance back at some important events that occurred in 2018.
A three-judge bench was on Tuesday set up in the Supreme Court to decide the fate of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, after a two-judge bench was divided on his plea seeking stay of his execution scheduled on July 30
A former law intern, who accused ex-Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly of sexual harassment, has hit back at him for denying the charges and hinted that she may file a police complaint.
The apex court, which quashed the NJAC Act in an unanimous verdict, also declared as unconstitutional the 99th amendment to the Constitution to bring in the Act to replace the collegium system.
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