{"id":31616,"date":"2014-01-09T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T05:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31616"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T05:43:47","slug":"kejriwal-somnath-bharti-meet-delhi-hc-cj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kejriwal-somnath-bharti-meet-delhi-hc-cj","title":{"rendered":"Kejriwal, Somnath Bharti meet Delhi HC CJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/law-student-withdraws-complaint-kejriwal\/cc-15\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31521\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31521\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/law-student-withdraws-complaint-kejriwal\/cc-15\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/cc.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/cc.jpg?fit=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/cc.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31521 alignright\" alt=\"cc\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cc-150x112.jpg?resize=150%2C112&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/cc.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/cc.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and law minister Somnath Bharti Wednesday held a &#8220;courtesy meeting&#8221; with Justice NV Ramana, Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>High court sources said the chief justice left for home at around 6 p.m. as he had a meeting with Delhi&#8217;s CM and law minister at his residence.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 260px;\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The sources said: &#8220;It was a formal courtesy meeting which is held every time a new chief minister takes oath. The meeting lasted for about 20 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They, however, refused to give details of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti has already been under fire after he called a meeting of all district judges in Delhi, and Principal Secretary (Law) AS Yadav, a district judge on deputation to the Delhi government, even shot off a letter to the Delhi High Court in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav rejected Bharti&#8217;s proposal of judges&#8217; meeting, expressing his inability to convene a meeting of all Delhi court judges at the state secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav told the minister that the judiciary is independent of the executive and only the Delhi High Court can summon a meeting of judges.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav had tried to reason with Bharti, himself a trained lawyer, that it was unthinkable for a minister or anyone representing the executive to summon a meeting of the judges.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers in Delhi also condemned Bharti&#8217;s move, contending that the judiciary was not under the control of the executive and political authority.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and law minister Somnath Bharti Wednesday held a &#8220;courtesy meeting&#8221; with Justice NV Ramana, Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, at his residence. 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