Teesta case shifted to new bench after judge’s recusal: Hanjura

Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Feb 24: Supreme Court has said that its decision to transfer the bail application of activist Teesta Setalvad in the Gulbarg society embezzlement case to a new bench was prompted by the recusal of a judge.
Supreme Court Registrar M K Hanjura told the media that news reports suggesting that the case was transferred from a Bench of Justice S J Mukhopadhaya and Justice N V Ramana to that of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A K Goel at the behest of Chief Justice H L Dattu lacked “basis or substance”.
He stressed that the case came to Justice Dipak Misra’s Bench after one of the judges in the Justice Mukhopadhaya Bench recused. “Whatever has been done has been done at the direct recusal of one of the judges of the previous Bench,” Mr Hanjura said.
He further said, “Listing of matters is in the exclusive domain of Chief Justice of India. In regard to the bail case of Teesta Setalvad, it was done at the direct recusal of one of the judges (of the previous Bench)”.

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