New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Shree Chandrashekhar on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the bail plea of lawyer-activist Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Gadchiroli arson case. He is the third judge to recuse himself in the case after Justice Atul Chandurkar and Justice MM Sundresh, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.At the outset of the hearing, which was listed before a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar, the court asked for the matter to be listed before another bench.”It will go to some other combination; my brother has some difficulty. Post before the bench in which one of us isn’t there,” Justice Mishra said.Gadling had approached the apex court challenging the Bombay high court order denying him bail in the arson case. He has been booked under various sections of UAPA and IPC for allegedly being part of a conspiracy by Maoists to set fire to more than 80 vehicles transporting iron ore from Surjagarh mines in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli.
