Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik, who was presiding over the bail plea of a man accused of the daylight murder of a developer in Navi Mumbai, has transferred the case to a bench of Justice CK Prasad. This follows the late developer's son sending CJI P Sathasivam a USB stick containing a purported recording of a conversation between the son and the accused's lawyer, with the son expressing fear his father's alleged killer would come after him if let out on bail by his 'friend' Patnaik. Patnaik denied even knowing the man in his order. [The Indian Express]