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New Delhi:Allahabad High Court chief justice Pritinker Diwaker caused a storm Tuesday when he said that his transfer from the Chhattisgarh High Court by the SC Collegium led by then CJI Dipak Misra in 2018 was ill-intended and meant to harass him...
Describing his transfer as a sudden turn of events, the outgoing chief justice said that he still doesnt know the reasons for shower of this extra affection upon him by former CJI Misra...
Earlier on Monday, Justice Bibek Chaudhuri of the Calcutta High Court drew parallels between the transfer of judges during the Emergency with the transfer of 24 judges by the Supreme Court collegium in August...
This led to a bench headed by Justice Thakur lashing out in open court over the pendency of certain recommendations for transfer of judges to different high courts in August 2016...
Then, in January 2017, a day before CJI Thakurs retirement, a bench headed by him accused the Centre of letting transfers of chief justices and judges of various high courts languish on somebodys desk for months on end...
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