{"id":54863,"date":"2018-12-03T17:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54863"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:29:39","slug":"sc-wasnt-going-in-right-direction-under-cji-dipak-misra-says-justice-kurien-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-wasnt-going-in-right-direction-under-cji-dipak-misra-says-justice-kurien-joseph","title":{"rendered":"SC wasn&#8217;t going in right direction under CJI Dipak Misra says Justice Kurien Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"164\" data-attachment-id=\"54864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-wasnt-going-in-right-direction-under-cji-dipak-misra-says-justice-kurien-joseph\/download-5-6\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?fit=308%2C164&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"308,164\" 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=\"download (5)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?fit=308%2C164&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?resize=308%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?w=308&amp;ssl=1 308w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?resize=150%2C80&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/download-5.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;Justice Kurian Joseph,&nbsp;&nbsp;said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under&nbsp;Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra who was being controlled from&nbsp;outside&nbsp;and was allocating cases to judges with political bias.&nbsp;It had become a question of the independence of the judiciary, protection of democracy and the institution of the Supreme Court, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Joseph was one of the four Supreme Court judges who held a&nbsp;&nbsp;press conference on January 12. 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Along with him Justices&nbsp;Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan B Lokur decided to go public against the functioning of the judiciary under Misra.&nbsp;&nbsp;They had alleged faulty \u201cassignment of cases\u201d and \u201csensitive cases being allotted to Judges low down on the top court&#8217;s hierarchy by Justice Misra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Joseph said this during a media talk with reporters after he retired as a Supreme Court judge on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;Justice Kurian Joseph,&nbsp;&nbsp;said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under&nbsp;Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra who was being controlled from&nbsp;outside&nbsp;and was allocating cases to judges with political bias.&nbsp;It had become a question of the independence of the judiciary, protection of democracy and the institution of the Supreme Court, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[31987,43810,25114],"class_list":["post-54863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-featured","tag-former-cji-dipak-misra","tag-justice-kurian-joseph"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC wasn&#039;t going in right direction under CJI Dipak Misra says Justice Kurien Joseph - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NEW DELHI:&nbsp;Justice Kurian Joseph,&nbsp;&nbsp;said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under&nbsp;Former Chief Justice of - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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