The Supreme Court yesterday reserved its order on the maintainability of a petition in which the issue of alleged bribing of judges has been raised. A three-judge bench headed by Justic R K Agrawal said it was likely to pass an order in the matter today.
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During the hearing, the bench questioned advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner Kamini Jaiswal, whether filing of two identically-worded petitions was not a matter of propriety and would it not tantamount to forum shopping if it is sought to be listed before a particular bench.
Meanwhile, Attorney General K K Venugopal said the petitioner should withdraw the plea as it has cost the reputation of the institution.
&ldquo;The order is reserved on the maintainability of the plea,&rdquo; the bench then said.
A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and S Abdul Nazeer had ordered on November 9 that the plea should be heard by a five-judge constitution bench of the senior-most judges of the apex court.
However, on November 10, in an unprecedented hearing, a five-judge constitution bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra had ruled that &ldquo;no judge can take up a matter on his own, unless allocated by the chief justice of India, as he is the master of the roster&rdquo;.
It had over-ruled the order of Justice Chelameswar directing a constitution bench hearing, saying &ldquo;if any such order has been passed by any bench, that cannot hold the field as that will be running counter to the order passed by the constitution bench.&rdquo;

The Supreme Court yesterday reserved its order on the maintainability of a petition in which the issue of alleged bribing of judges has been raised

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