An unprecedented crisis engulfed the Supreme Court after the four judges — Justices Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B. Lokur and Kurian Joseph — on Friday took on the Chief Justice over allocation of cases, saying the administration of the court was not in order. Every day before the commencement of court work at 10.30 a.m., all the judges have tea together. On Monday, when judges came for the customary tea, the top court staff attending to judges in the lounge were asked to leave. Thereafter, in an informal chat, the issues raised by the four judges at a press conference were talked over and “resolved”, a source said. As a consequence of this meeting, the commencement of top court working on Monday was delayed by 10 minutes. The benches in court number two, three, four and five headed by Justice Chelameswar, Justice Gogoi, Justice Lokur and Justice Joseph respectively attended to their business as usual. Significantly, lawyer R.P. Luthra, in a mention before the court number one headed by Justice Misra, said there was a conspiracy to destroy the institution and urged the Chief Justice to take action against the four judges. The Chief Justice smiled and remained silent. The BCI President said a Bar delegation met senior judges on Sunday and requested them to sort out the differences among themselves. “Now it appears this morning they all met and resolved it. Now it (the Supreme Court) is functioning smoothly.”