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The petitioner alleged that a bench led by Gogoi had dismissed his case in merely 10 minutes and passed the order to unduly favour a corporate body.
The apex court said after the lapse of two years, there was remote possibility of recovery of electronic records corroborating to the plot.
The Japanese firm had filed a contempt petition against the former Ranbaxy promoters alleging that execution of their arbitral award had been in jeopardy as the Singh brothers disposed of their controlling stakes in Fortis Group to the Malaysian firm.
Justice Gogoi, the first from north-east India, administered the oath as 46th CJI by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the forenoon
Justice Kurian Joseph was one of the four senior judges to have conducted an unprecedented January 12 presser mounting a virtual revolt against the then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.
The BJP, however, denied Tarun Gogoi's assertion on Ranjan Gogoi who was nominated as a Rajya Sabha member by the government in March.
Justice Gogoi headed the five-judge which decided the Ayodhya title dispute and delivered a landmark judgement.
The former CJI was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 16.
Katju had spoken out against Gogoi before. In January, he responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstate a woman employee who had been dismissed after accusing Gogoi of sexual misconduct, calling Gogoi a “rascal and a rogue”.
Gogoi was nominated to the Upper House by President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday, on the recommendation of the Narendra Modi government.
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