Last week, Shenoy had also moved a plea challenging the curtailment of the list of cases before Justice Mary Joseph, a sitting judge of the Court, to around 20 cases a day, when most judges have over 100 cases listed before them each day.
That plea sought a direction to the Registrar General of High Court to have a standard criterion for listing matters before various courts in accordance with the directions of the Chief Justice.
At around the same time, a division bench of the High Court issued notice to Shenoy after it initiated suo motu contempt of court proceedings against him. The reasons for initiating the proceedings was not mentioned in its order.
Several news portals reported on the events but Shenoy alleged that legal news agency LiveLaw published details of the suo motu contempt petition before it was served on Shenoy.
In the present plea, Shenoy argued that the fact that the contempt petition was seemingly leaked to the news agency before it was even served on him, is a serious issue that requires investigation.
The BCK had also sent Shenoy a show cause notice last month. While the BCK notice stated that the proceedings were initiated by it suo motu, Shenoy claimed in the present plea that it was on the basis of a letter that Justice Joseph had sent to the BCK making allegations against him of misbehaviour during a hearing before the single-judge.
Source: Barandbench
