The petition is slated to come up for hearing before a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on October 20. At the last hearing, the bench had held that there should be no delay by the Centre in appointing judges and that the Centre should not keep the names (recommended for elevation) in a "limbo".
The APAJC asked the Union Minister to refer the request to the Supreme Court Collegium so that it may review its proposal to transfer Justices Battu Devanand and D Ramesh.