{"id":46192,"date":"2016-12-17T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=46192"},"modified":"2016-12-17T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:08:16","slug":"sc-judge-recuses-hearing-plea-justice-khehar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-judge-recuses-hearing-plea-justice-khehar","title":{"rendered":"SC judge recuses himself from hearing plea against Justice Khehar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44262\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-files-caveat-sc-issue-delhis-ut-status\/supreme-court-1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC judge recuses himself from hearing plea against Justice Khehar\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC judge recuses himself from hearing plea against Justice Khehar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today did not hear a petition filed by group of lawyers opposing the elevation of Justice J S Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India after a judge in the bench recused himself from hearing it.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who was part of the bench along with Justice L Nageswara Rao, preferred to opt himself out from hearing the plea filed by National Lawyers&#8217; Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;List before a bench of which one of us (Ranjan Gogoi, J) is not a member,&#8221; the bench said.<\/p>\n<p>In its plea, the lawyers&#8217; body said that instead of Justice Khehar, Justice J Chelameshwar, now the fourth senior-most judge, should be elevated as he had given a dissenting view when the National Judicial Appointments Commission was struck down by a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice Khehar.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today did not hear a petition filed by group of lawyers opposing the elevation of Justice J S Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India after a judge in the bench recused himself from hearing it. 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