“Told My Brother Judge To Keep It To My Ears”: CJI BR Gavai In Lighter Vein On Social Media Misreporting Of Judges' Remarks

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai today made a lighter vein comment on how the remarks made by Judges are wrongly portrayed on social media.

Because of the chances of misinterpretation, CJI Gavai said that he once refrained his brother Judge, Justice K Vinod Chandran, from making certain open observations in a case concerning judicial service, and instead advised him to share the comments privately with him.

The bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing the All India Judges Association case. When arguments were being made about the lack of promotion chances for judicial officers, CJI said in a lighter vein :

"My learned brother had something to comment, I stopped him from expressing it, when we were hearing the Dheeraj Mor case. Otherwise, on this social media, we d