Bar Council of India To Meet SC Collegium To Seek Withdrawal of Elevation of Two Justices

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Bar Council of India/Photo: Anil Shakya

Protests against the elevation of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjeev Khanna to the Supreme Court continue to mount with the Bar Council of India expressing its anger and deciding to send a delegation to meet the collegium to that their decision of 10 January be withdrawn.

Recalling that it had actively worked to sort out the issue when around this time last by four senior judges of the SC came out to protest, the BCI said it will if needed convene a meeting of all the state Bar Councils , High Court Bar Associations and others to discuss the matter and to decide of what further action needs to be taken.

“The BCI has decided to meet the judges in order to make them acquainted with the views of the India Bar. “The Council feels that our senior judges and the Chief Justice of India will realise the truth, they are all very reasoned people and by this time they might have seen the reaction of the people