Attorney General of India K.K. Venugopal has expressed his confidence that a mediation to end the impasse between four warring Supreme Court of India Judges and Chief Justice of India Dipal Misra could be put in place by Monday evening.

Justice Chellameshwar, Justice Kurien Joseph, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madhan P. Lokur met newspersons last weekend and leveled serious allegations against the incumbent CJI in what is an unprecedented event in the judicial history of the country. Judges never interact with newspersons officially and the quartet holding a press conference at New Delhi thus became the national headlines in the press.

The Judges said that CJI wasn’t behaving in an unbiased manner and that democracy wasn’t progressing in the right direction.  The allegations shocked not only judiciary but the conscience of the common man for whom the Supreme Court was the final authority in all matters.

Speaking to newsmen in Delhi, Venugopal said that he hoped that some sort of mediation would be put in place by Monday evening between the Judges and the CJI.  “These are men of wisdom and energy and I earnestly hope they won’t allow things to precipitate further,” Venugopal opined.  It is rumoured that the CJI would have a closed-door meeting with the warring Judges on Monday.

In the meantime, members of the Bar Council of India met the CJI at the latter’s residence yesterday following their meeting with the four Judges.  It is intimated that the Council members conveyed the feelings/thoughts of the Judges to the CJI who gave them a patient hearing.