MUMBAI, May 18: CJI Bhushan Gavai displeased over protocol lapse during first visit to Maharashtra after taking office Gavai, who took oath as CJI on May 14, was in Mumbai for a felicitation programme by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa.
The CJI’s pointed out during his speech that neither the Chief Secretary nor the DGP or Mumbai Police Commissioner had turned up when “the Chief Justice of India, who is from Maharashtra, has arrived for the first time”.
CJI added that if the Chief Secretary of the state, DGP, or Mumbai Police Commissioner do not want to come to receive when the Chief Justice of India, who is from Maharashtra, has arrived for the first time, it’s up to them to think about it. I’m not insisting on protocol, but it’s a respect by other organs of the institution to the judiciary.
When a Chief of an organ of the Constitution is coming for the first time to the state, and when he too belongs to the said state, whether the treatment they gave was right or not, they themselves should think, CJI added. I don’t want to go much into small things. But I mentioned it because people should know.”
But, all three, the Chief Secretary, Police Chief and DGP later apologized to the CJI and saw him off at the Mumbai international airport.
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