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New Delhi: The controversy over the premature retirement of former NCLAT chairman Justice Ashok Iqbal Singh Cheema ended in the Supreme Court on Thursday with the Center allowing him to continue in office till September 20 to deliver the verdict.
Justice Cheema, the former chairman of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), was to retire on September 20, but Justice M Venugopal was appointed as the acting head of the tribunal with effect from September 11, leading to a peculiar situation where the former contacted. Supreme Court.
I have taken instructions. It was said that he (Cheema) had taken leave to write the judgment. That’s why we have decided that he will be allowed to go to office and deliver the judgement, the current Speaker Justice Venugopal will be sent on leave, Attorney General KK Venugopal told a bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hema Kohli.
The submission is accepted and the resultant orders will be passed (by the government). The present Chairman will be on leave till September 20 and this order has been passed keeping in view the peculiar facts and circumstances of the matter.
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