The Supreme Court has declined to give urgent hearing to the government for immediately clearing recommendations of the Supreme Court collegium for elevation of three High Court Chief Justices as Supreme Court judges.
A bench, comprising the Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, refused to hear urgently a PIL filed by an advocate R K Kapoor, requesting the apex court to let the petition come up for hearing in normal course.

There has been open confrontation between the judiciary and the government on the recommendations of the Supreme Court collegium as three senior most Chief Justices of various High Courts A P Shah, V K Gupta and Patnaik were ignored.

The collegium had recommended the names of Justices A K Ganguly, R M Lodha and H L Dattu.