Heated exchange in Supreme Court over allotment of land for lawyers’ chambers

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The Supreme Court on Thursday was witness to a heated courtroom exchange between Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and Supreme Court Bar Association president senior advocate Vikas Singh over allotment of land for lawyers chambers...

Chief Justice Chandrachud, usually unflappable, asked Mr. Singh to not raise his voice at the Bench, and finally told him to leave the courtroom...

Mr. Singh pressed on, saying the court got the nearby Appu Ghar because of a petition filed by lawyers..

Chief Justice Chandrachud said the judges were not sitting idle and were battling with a large case load..

Later, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Neeraj Kishan Kaul expressed their anguish and apologised to the Chief Justice on behalf of the Bar..

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