Justices question chief justice over ‘middlemen’ and Rana’s detention

At a five-hour full-court meeting, most of the bench pressed Manoj Kumar Sharma on why the Supreme Court is mired in controversy just four months into his tenure.

Supreme Court justices questioned Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Sharma’s leadership at a full-court meeting on Monday, a day after police took former chief justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana from his home and held him for about 12 hours before releasing him.