Judge Vs judge: Supreme Court Transfers Case From High Court To Itself

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New Delhi: All proceedings concerning the caste certificate scam, which saw a rift between two sitting high court judges, have been transferred by the Supreme Court from Calcutta High Court to itself.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose passed the order on Monday in a suo motu case.

The case was initiated after Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court passed an unprecedented order to “ignore” a stay order passed by a division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Uday Kumar.

Refraining from making any comment on the clash between Justice Gangopadhyay and Justice Sen, the Supreme Court observed that any such comment would affect the dignity of High Court proceedings, reported Bar and Bench.

“Casting aspersions on single judge or division bench would not be proper. Anything we say will have effect on impinging the dignity of the high court. We will handle it in some way,” CJI Chandrachud said.

However, the apex court asserted that the case will be dealt with by the Supreme Court from now on.

“We will transfer the proceedings in the writ petition and the letters patent appeal to the Supreme Court. We will list it after a while and deal with it. … The plea under Article 226 and letters patent appeal to be transferred to this court. Let pleadings be completed meanwhile,” the top court said.