A day after the Supreme Court saw some unprecedented scenes and drama over setting up a constitution bench to probe a medical admission scam, lawyer Prashant Bhushan today lashed out at Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in a series of tweets. Prabhasnt Bhushan said, "The Chief Justice of India, for the first time, has violated the most basic norm of any decision-making authority that no one shall be a judge in his or her own case. The brazenness with which the CJI has ridden roughshod over this has brought SC to disrepute." He has violated basic principle of natural justice, that you can't be judge in your own cause." However, in a dramatic development, the CJI today set up a five-judge bench headed by him and overturned Thursday's order of the two-judge bench, saying the Chief Justice had the sole prerogative of setting up a bench and allocating matters.

Source: India Today November 11, 2017 05:27 UTC