Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today underwent a check-up at a heart hospital in south Delhi.
Hospital sources, however, said, "he was fine and it was just a routine check-up."
64-year-old Thakur did not attend court today.
"The CJI visited the hospital earlier in the day. He has been coming to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for medical check-ups for the past couple of years, and today's visit was also a regular visit. He is doing fine and has returned home. There is nothing to worry about," a source said.
Thakur is the 43rd Chief Justice of India and due to to retire on January 4 next year.
Born in 1952, he was enrolled as a pleader in October, 1972 and joined the chamber of his father Late D D Thakur, a leading advocate and later a judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Thakur was appointed as a permanent judge in September, 1995 and transferred as a judge of the High Court of Delhi in July 2004.
He was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in 2008 and took over as Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana on August 11, 2008.
Elevated as a judge of Supreme Court in 2009, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on December 3 last year.
Taking potshots at the protracted procedures, the Chief
Justice of India narrated an incident when a senior law officer had approached Supreme Court for condoning the delay in a particular case which had been rejected by a High Court.
Khehar said the matter goes from one department to another, and then after layers of consideration and reconsideration, a decision is taken that an appeal needs to be filed.
Responding to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's observation, Justice Khehar sought to bring out the difference of opinion in their views about the judiciary.
"There is a difference of perception between the Union Law Minister and Union Finance Minister. I don't blame either. The reason is that I do not know what to say -- are you on the wrong side? or are we on the wrong side?
"Probably you are on the wrong side because it's us passing the order and that is the unfortunate path and sometimes it is not a pleasant experience to have an order set aside or altered or changed or modified. So, but for that, we assure you that we will keep within our boundary," he said.
Earlier, Prasad had said that all the institutions of democracy -- Executive, Legislative and Judiciary -- should function within their limits.
"While upholding the majesty of our courts and independence of judiciary as integral to India's governance, which cannot be tinkered by any which ways, we also need to acknowledge that legislation must be left to those who are elected by the people to make such legislations and governance must be left to those elected to govern by the people of India," the Law Minister said.
He said independence of judiciary is the basic structure undoubtedly, but "separation of power is also a basic structure".
"It is the job of the executive to formulate and execute, the job of the legislator to legislate and the duty of the judiciary to interpret so that it becomes sacrosanct. How they have to work in symphony and harmony, is the job that the judiciary needs to find. That's how I think that our Constitutional governance must function," Prasad said.
