The Centre on Thursday, Sept 16,  told the Supreme Court that former acting chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) Justice AIS Cheema will be reinstated and allowed to continue in office till September 20. The newly appointed NCLAT chairperson Justice M Venugopal will be asked to go on leave until then, Attorney General KK Venugopal told a Bench led by CJI NV Ramana.

As the controversy over Justice Cheema’s premature retirement as acting chairman of the NCLAT got blown over, the CJI thanked the Attorney General for solving the problem. The Bench, however, made it clear that “the instant order has been passed taking into consideration the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present facts and this shall not be treated as a precedent.” Justice Cheema had moved the top court against the government’s decision to curtail his tenure. He had demanded that at least he should be allowed to work up to September 20 as the officiating chairperson of the NCLAT to enable him to pronounce the judgments prepared by him.