Why it is in news?
- The term ‘Chief Justice of India’ denotes an individual judge and not a collective of the first three or five senior-most judges of the Supreme Court called the ‘Collegium,’ the Supreme Court declared.
Rulling
- It is the exclusive authority of this individual judge to allocate cases to fellow judges in his role as the master of the roster, a Bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan clarified in their separate but concurring opinions.
- The ruling is based on a petition by former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan to have the Collegium collectively allocate cases.
Source
The Hindu