{"id":54156,"date":"2018-09-26T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54156"},"modified":"2018-09-26T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:26:50","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-plea-challenging-appointment-of-justice-gogoi-as-next-cji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-plea-challenging-appointment-of-justice-gogoi-as-next-cji","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects plea challenging appointment of Justice Gogoi as next CJI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" data-attachment-id=\"54157\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-plea-challenging-appointment-of-justice-gogoi-as-next-cji\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" 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=\"dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?resize=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?resize=150%2C83&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/dipak-misra-ranjan-gogoi.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition\u00a0filed by advocate RP Luthra seeking to quash the appointment\u00a0\u00a0of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India.\u00a0The petitioner advocates, R P Luthra and Satyaveer Sharma had relied on the contents of a press conference called by the top four judges including Justice Gogoi earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud\u00a0said that the petition was &#8220;devoid of merits&#8221;. &#8220;We are of the view that it is not the stage to interfere (with the appointment),&#8221; 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