Even after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal was quoted in a section of the media on January 15 as having said that the issues between the CJI and the four judges had been ironed out at the informal tea meeting, speculations continued through the day gumming up the process of reconciliation.
A section of the media indeed quoted a single source claiming to be close to the four judges as having said that there have been no attempts so far to resolve the issue raised by the four judges. Even while admitting that all four attended the morning tea session and spent a few minutes there before the day's work began, the source claimed that talk of a resolution was a deliberate attempt to trivialize the issue raised by them. While everyone in a democracy has the right to say that the four judges were wrong in going public, what they are now facing is "mischief," the unnamed source pontificated.
Monday was the first working day in the Supreme Court after Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B. Lokur and Kurian Joseph held a press conference on January 13, criticising the Chief Justice of selective allocation of sensitive cases.