The Karnataka high court, which faces a piquant situation arising out of an order passed by its division bench that virtually amounts to inquiring into the functioning of the Chief Justice on the administrative side, moved the Supreme Court on Monday for a stay on the order.
Stung by “adverse” media publicity on certain comments made by a division bench comprising Justices D.V. Shylendra Kumar and N. Anand, the high court administration wanted an immediate stay on their order.
But repeated attempts by the counsel for the HC to get the case taken up for hearing by a vacation bench of the apex court failed as certain “defects” were found in the petition.
The vacation bench of Justices Deepak Verma and K.S. Radhakrishnan, approached thrice by the HC’s counsel, expressed its inability to take up the matter unless the defects were removed.