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Kejriwal, Somnath Bharti meet Delhi HC CJ
By: Tupaki Desk | 9 Jan 2014 5:46 AM GMTDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and law minister Somnath Bharti Wednesday held a "courtesy meeting" with Justice N.V. Ramana, Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, at his residence.
High court sources said the chief justice left for home at around 6 p.m. as he had a meeting with Delhi's CM and law minister at his residence.
The sources said: "It was a formal courtesy meeting which is held every time a new chief minister takes oath. The meeting lasted for about 20 minutes."
They, however, refused to give details of the meeting.
Bharti has already been under fire after he called a meeting of all district judges in Delhi, and Principal Secretary (Law) A.S. Yadav, a district judge on deputation to the Delhi government, even shot off a letter to the Delhi High Court in this regard.
Yadav rejected Bharti's proposal of judges' meeting, expressing his inability to convene a meeting of all Delhi court judges at the state secretariat.
Yadav told the minister that the judiciary is independent of the executive and only the Delhi High Court can summon a meeting of judges.
Yadav had tried to reason with Bharti, himself a trained lawyer, that it was unthinkable for a minister or anyone representing the executive to summon a meeting of the judges.
Lawyers in Delhi also condemned Bharti's move, contending that the judiciary was not under the control of the executive and political authority.
High court sources said the chief justice left for home at around 6 p.m. as he had a meeting with Delhi's CM and law minister at his residence.
The sources said: "It was a formal courtesy meeting which is held every time a new chief minister takes oath. The meeting lasted for about 20 minutes."
They, however, refused to give details of the meeting.
Bharti has already been under fire after he called a meeting of all district judges in Delhi, and Principal Secretary (Law) A.S. Yadav, a district judge on deputation to the Delhi government, even shot off a letter to the Delhi High Court in this regard.
Yadav rejected Bharti's proposal of judges' meeting, expressing his inability to convene a meeting of all Delhi court judges at the state secretariat.
Yadav told the minister that the judiciary is independent of the executive and only the Delhi High Court can summon a meeting of judges.
Yadav had tried to reason with Bharti, himself a trained lawyer, that it was unthinkable for a minister or anyone representing the executive to summon a meeting of the judges.
Lawyers in Delhi also condemned Bharti's move, contending that the judiciary was not under the control of the executive and political authority.
