By an order of a Division Bench dated 17 February 2014, a direction was issued to the Registry to place the writ petition before the Chief Justice for the exercise of discretion under Clause 14 of the United Provinces High Courts (Amalgamation) Order, 1948.

2. The genesis of the petition is explained by the two petitioners, who appeared in person, in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of the writ petition, the relevant portion of which is extracted herein below:

'That coming to the subject matter of the PIL, a few days ago Justice Dr. Satish Chandra allegedly misbehaved with a lawyer during a hearing on 22/01/2014. Following the incident, the Oudh Bar Association (OBA, for short) had allegedly passed a resolution against Justice Dr Chandra and had alleged stated that lawyers will not resume judicial work till Justice Dr Chandra was transferred. As per the media reports and the personal experience of both the petitioners, most of the lawyers of the OBA abstained from work.

That in short, for many days there was almost a complete boycott/strike of the lawyers at the Lucknow bench of this Hon’ble Court. That as per the media reports and the personal knowledge of the petitioners, the OBA cal