Manan Kumar Mishra and Prabhakar told this newspaper that the judges were very receptive to the suggestion to resolve the issue and expressed the hope that the CJI would soon meet the top judges or convene a Full Court meeting to find ways and means to put an end to the imbroglio that has dent the image of the judiciary. People have unflinching faith in the judiciary," he appealed.The four seniormost judges - Justices Jasti Chelameswar , Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph - alleged that the CJI has been arbitrarily assigning important cases to benches headed by junior SC judges, ignoring senior ones.Addressing the media on the lawns of Chelameswar’s bungalow on Tughlaq Road, barely 200 metres from the CJI’s residence, the judges said they were forced to hold the press conference because a letter they had sent to the CJI two months ago pointing out mistakes had gone unanswered. Without taking any name, BCI chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said, "No political party or leader should take an undue advantage of the situation arising out of the press conference of the four senior " The reference to political parties and leaders assumes significance as Congress president Rahul Gandhi had on Friday addressed the media after the judges went public with their grievances. I am sure everything will be settled," he said earlier today.Justice Kurian Joseph, one of the four judges who revolted against the CJI, said there was no constitutional crisis in the apex court and there are only problems in procedure which they had objected to. The Supreme Court Bar Association President Vikas Singh also met the CJI at his residence and handed over a copy of the resolutions passed on Saturday that the PILs should be allocated to top five judges and the Full Court should meet and sort out the problem. Earlier on Saturday, Singh had said that the justices’ complaints were not substantial,

The bar association in an emergency meeting also adopted a resolution that urged only the chief justice or the four other senior judges of the apex court to hear all Public Interest Litigation matters, including the one calling for an independent inquiry into the death of special Central Bureau of Investigation judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya.
The Bar Council of India forms a 7-member delegation which will attempt to meet the four most senior Supreme Court judges on behalf of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra. This comes in the wake of allegations made by the four top judges against the CJI at a first of its kind press conference held on January 12.