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Lawyer M L Sharma, during the day, unsuccessfully mentioned his PIL for urgent hearing against seven activist advocates before two benches headed by the CJI and Justice Arun Mishra respectively.
While the CJI asked him to mention the case for urgent hearing “before some other bench”, Justice Mishra declined the prayer for urgent hearing by saying, “I am bottom down (in seniority).”
Sharma has named activist lawyers like Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Kamini Jaiswal, Vrinda Grover, Indira Jaising, Nina Gupta Bhasin and Dushyant Dave as parties in his PIL.
He alleged that the actions of some of the lawyers amounted to “contempt of court” and there was a “planned conspiracy” to defame the CJI.
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The plea also seeks a direction to the CBI for registering an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against all the lawyers and the NGOs run by them, to arrest them and to investigate the case since 2010.