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Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said (Television) Journalists behave as if they have turned Popes or guardians overnight. There are limits. (Photo: PTI)

Questions over CJI's role

The order, written by Justice Chandrachud, says: As a repository of constitutional trust, the CJI is an institution in...

13 April 2018 2:44 AM IST

Justice J. Chelameswar

Unhappy over affairs, SC judge refuses to hear plea citing...

Justice J Chelameswar said he was facing a relentless campaign against him just before his retirement.

12 April 2018 1:51 PM IST

Power of CJI to allocate cases cannot be questioned: SC

Subsequently, the CJI made the roster system public and portfolios were published on the Supreme Court website.

12 April 2018 1:44 AM IST

Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan has stated that master of roster cannot be unguided and unbridled discretionary power, exercised arbitrarily by the CJIby hand-picking benches of select judges or by assigning cases to particular judges.

Clarify CJI's role as master of roster: Shanti Bhushan files PIL in SC

Shanti Bhushan filed PIL through Prashant Bhushan who asked SC's secretary general not to list the matter before a bench...

6 April 2018 3:15 PM IST

On Ravi Shankar Prasads remark that PILs cannot become a substitute for governance, the CJI said the Supreme Court believed in and practised constitutional sovereignty. (Photo: PTI/File)

Chief Justice of India is Master of Roster, has power to allocate...

Supreme Court was hearing a petition that had called for a panel of senior judges to decide on rostering judges and...

6 July 2018 11:44 AM IST

Official Sources told PTI that Justice Gogoi wrote a letter to the Ministry of Law and Justice recommending Justice Bobde to be the next chief justice. (Photo: File)

Chief Justice Gogoi recommends Justice S A Bobde as his successor

Official sources said CJI has gone by convention to recommend name of next senior judge after him as his successor.

18 Oct 2019 11:06 AM IST

Justice Bobde takes charge as India's 47th Chief Justice

Justice Bobde, 63, the 47th Chief Justice of India, will serve till April 23, 2021 a tenure of over 17 months, or 522...

19 Nov 2019 5:47 AM IST

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde will on Monday sworn-in as the 47th Chief Justice of India (CJI). (Photo: File)

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde sworn-in as 47th Chief Justice

Justice Bobde was elevated to the bench of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000, as an Additional Judge.

18 Nov 2019 9:09 AM IST

Upholding a 2010 Delhi high court verdict, the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, cautioned that RTI cannot be used as a tool of surveillance and held that judicial independence and right to privacy have to be kept in mind while dealing with transparency. (Representational Image)

Supreme Court: CJI office a public authority, falls under RTI

Transparency and openness in judicial appointments juxtaposed with confidentiality of deliberations remain one of the...

14 Nov 2019 2:37 AM IST

Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court verdict on plea to bring CJI office under RTI Act today

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will pronounce the judgement at 2 pm.

13 Nov 2019 8:33 AM IST

Police at the site of the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday morning. (Photo: PTI)

Instant justice' is abhorrent

The CJI's is a voice of sanity amid the wide support for the Telangana police action in killing four suspected rapists.

9 Dec 2019 12:23 AM IST

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi disagreed on a suggestion that a ban on strikes by lawyers be lifted. (Photo: ANI)

Allegations against CJI: Ex-employee appears before in-house inquiry...

During the hearing before the panel, only the woman was present and the secretary general was not privy to the...

26 April 2019 4:25 PM IST