JUDGMENT

ORDER :—This writ petition is by a body of advocates styled "Sub-Committee on Judicial Accountability" and raises certain questions as to the validity and implementation of the action of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha admitting a notice of motion moved by 108 Members of Parliament under Article 124(5) read with the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968 and constituting an Inquiry Committee consisting of a Judge of the SC, Chief Justice of a High Court and a jurist to investigate into the allegations of misconduct made against a sitting Judge of the SC pertaining to his conduct as the erstwhile Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

2. The main prayers in the writ petition are that the Union Government be directed toafford facilities to the Inquiry Committee to discharge its constitutional and statutory functions; and for directions to the Honble Chief Justice of India to abstain from allocating any judicial work to the concerned Judge during the pendency of the proceedings before the Committee. In regard to the latter prayer that notice should go to the Honble Chief Justice of India, we think that aspect of the matter should be deferred for the present and considered at the