The remaining benches shall continue to take up the matters through video-conferencing. They heard a plea seeking safe passage of injured victims of violence in New Delhi to medical institutions with adequate facilities.“In partial modification of this Court's Office Order dated, the Hon'ble Full Court has been pleased to order that physical hearings in this Court shall resume from ,' said the order issued by Registrar General Manoj Jain in relation to the HC.Īs per the order, the chief justice will decide on a suitable number of benches that would hold physical hearings. Bhambhani also heard a matter related to Delhi violence on Tuesday midnight. Justice S Muralidhar along with Justice Anup J. The bench on Wednesday afternoon also directed the Delhi police to examine the videos related to hate speeches by political leaders, which allegedly led to violence in northeast Delhi, and take a decision in the matter. On Wednesday a division bench of Justice Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh, while hearing a plea seeking a judicial enquiry into the violence and registration of FIR against BJP leaders Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma for allegedly making hate speeches, adjourned the matter till Thursday.

The Delhi High Court Bar Association also abstained from work last week as a token of protest against the transfer and said: 'It is a rarest of rare case, the majesty of our revered institution is at stake.' The Delhi High Court Bar Association had requested for a revisit of the issue and to recall the move to transfer Muralidhar.

The Bar Association had expressed shock and dismay at the transfer of one of the finest judges by the collegium of the Supreme Court.Ĭondemning his transfer, the Bar Association had said: 'Such transfers are not only detrimental to our noble Institution but also tend to erode and dislodge the faith of the common litigant in the justice dispensation system.' The Delhi High Court Bar Association last week condemned the transfer recommendation and also passed a resolution unanimously regarding this.

The Supreme Court collegium had in its meeting held on February 12 recommended to transfer Justice Muralidhar from the Delhi high court to the Punjab and Haryana high court.

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