Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud rubbished allegations that he deliberately sent bail matters to Justice Bela Trivedi, who was seen as less inclined to grant relief. Speaking at the India Today Conclave Mumbai session, Chandrachud called such claims “unsubstantiated” and contrary to the court record. He further explained that the cases in the Supreme Court are randomly allocated by a computer.

“It’s very well to make these unsubstantiated allegations but facts are to the contrary,” he said. “When I was Chief Justice of India and I said we prioritise bail — in the two years that I was the Chief Justice of India, we granted bail in 21,000 cases. Over 21,000 individual citizens of India got bail.”

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The former CJI stressed that “every single individu

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