New Delhi: A day after the Attorney General K K Venugopal had said that the crisis in the Apex Court has been settled, he on Tuesday admitted that the differences seem to be unresolved.
“Yes, I think it has not been settled. Let’s hope things will be fully settled within 2-3 days,” Venugopal told Press Trust of India.
On January 12 four senior sitting Supreme Court judges — Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph — openly came out against the Chief Justice of India and questioned the functioning of the top court.
On whether he had a meeting or spoke with any of the four judges or the CJI, Venugopal said, “Nothing of that sort has happened”.
However, he hoped things will be sorted out in the next couple of days.
All four judges had resumed work on Monday, giving an impression that a settlement has been reached. The Attorney General had called the crisis ‘a storm in the a tea cup.’
In that first of it’s kind press conference, the four judges had said that there is an immediate need to protect the judicial system in the country in order to protect democracy.
“We met CJI with a specific request which unfortunately couldn’t convince him that we were right therefore, we were left with no choice except to communicate it to the nation that please take care of the institution,” Justice Chelameswar said.
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra had on Sunday met a seven-member delegation of the Bar Council of India and Supreme Court Bar Association President Vikas Singh and had assured them that the crisis would be sorted out soon and congeniality would prevail.
