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IT was startling to hear from a retired Supreme Court judge that some of the actions of Justice Dipak Misra during his tenure as CJI indicated that he was under some external influence (“Kurian Joseph stirs the pot on CJI’S functioning”, Dispatches, December 4). This perception was brought to the CJI’S attention many times by several judges, but as it continued to persist among the judges, four of them, Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Kurian Joseph and Madan B. Lokur, held a press conference and ventilated their grievances about the sorry state of affairs prevailing in the Supreme Court.

One hopes that under the present CJI, this perception will no longer prevail and the Supreme Court will continue to be the citadel of justice in the country. N.C. SREEDHARAN KANNUR, KERALA