New Delhi: Two days after Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant said that he did not have the time to watch videos of police brutality of protesters, he has said that reports saying that he refused to list a petition challenging the police action against student protesters were “completely false.”

The CJI, according to reports including on LiveLaw, claimed that no writ petition on the issue had been filed before the Supreme Court.

CJI Surya Kant occupies a unique position in the protests which saw and are seeing police brutality. In May, his remarks saying, “There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have any place in profession” led to the formation of the........

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