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CJI Sanjiv Khanna.
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna Monday recused from proceeding a petition seeking contempt of tribunal proceedings against officials of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) implicit alleged amerciable felling of trees successful the Ridge country for widening the attack roadworthy to the under-construction Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences.
Justice Khanna, presiding implicit a two-judge bench, expressed inability to perceive the substance saying helium had been with Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena antecedently during a sojourn to jails successful Bihar.
“As Chairman of NALSA, I went to a Bihar jail. The L-G of Delhi was besides there. We had taken a circuit of the jailhouse and this contempt petition is successful his idiosyncratic capableness — it whitethorn beryllium due to database it earlier different bench,” Justice Khanna said.
The bench, besides comprising Justice Sanjay Kumar, directed that the substance beryllium listed successful the week commencing earlier a seat not including Justice Khanna.
The Delhi LG is besides the ex-officio Chairman of the DDA.
The contempt plea had reached the CJI seat pursuing a quality of sentiment betwixt 2 different benches proceeding it.
On July 24, a seat led by Justice B R Gavai took objection to different seat led by Justice A S Oka proceeding the matter, pointing retired that it had already issued a contempt announcement to the DDA connected the contented connected April 24.
Though a seat presided by erstwhile CJI D Y Chandrachud heard it for immoderate days, it could not beryllium completed owing to his retirement.
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