Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1091 · Decided 10 November 2017
Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms v. Union of India and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1091 · [2017] 12 S.C.R. 331
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 169/2017
- Decided
- 10 November 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R.K. AGRAWAL, ARUN MISHRA, AMITAVA ROY, A.M. KHANWILKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Matter referred to larger bench
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
B Supreme Court: Allocation of cases - Composition of Benches C - There can be no doubt that on the judicial side the Chief Justice is the first amongst the equals, but as far as the roster is concerned, the Chief Justice is roster and he alone has the prerogative to constitute the Benches of the Court and allocate cases to the Benches so constituted - Neither a two-Judge Bench nor a three-Judge Bench can allocate the matter to themselves or direct D the composition for constitution of a Bench - There cannot be any
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