Speaking at an event ‘Role of Bar and Bench in Social Engineering,’ organised by the Youth Bar Association of India, Justice Gogoi, who will take over as the 46th CJI on 3 October, said on Saturday that he has a plan to deal with the backlog of cases and he will “unfold” it soon.
October 1, 2018Justice Gogoi, one of the four judges who revolted against Chief Justice Misra earlier this year, was on September 13 appointed the next Chief Justice of India (CJI).
September 25, 2018A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the claims for inclusions in NRC would be backed by 10 identity documents which were permitted by the court.
September 19, 2018Four senior-most Supreme Court judges, who had held an unprecedented press conference and raised the issue of assignment of cases, on Monday attended court and took up routine work. The four judges — Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph — have taken up their respective business on the first working …
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January 15, 2018Praising the four Supreme Court judges who mounted a virtual revolt against the country’s chief justice, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today said attempts were being made to make the judiciary “deaf and dumb”. He said the government should not meddle in the matter. “The decision of those judges should be lauded. There is a …
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January 13, 2018The Supreme Court Bar association held a meeting on Saturday over the allegations levelled against the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, by the four senior most SC judges on Friday. The Bar members also addressed the mediapersons. They said “there were issues, but they needed to be resolved within the house”. Bar Council of …
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January 13, 2018For the first time in Indian judiciary, four senior most judges of the Supreme Court — Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph — held a press conference on Friday, claiming that the situation in the top court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things have taken place. While addressing the …
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January 12, 2018The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the behaviour of CBI personnel during raids and wondered how a senior bureaucrat, arrested in a graft case, and his family members had committed suicide here last year. The top court observed that such a thing cannot happen in normal course and, at times during raids, the CBI officials …
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November 20, 2017The Supreme Court on Friday closed a contempt proceedings against one of its former judge Justice Markandey Katju after receiving an unconditional apology from him. "In view of the apology tendered, we accept and close the proceeding," stated the bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit. Seventy-year-old Katju had said in his …
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January 6, 2017