so much adversity and yet carried on so bravely you will leave behind a legacy of hard work erudition fortitude and excellent relations you shared with all colleagues you have so many firsts and given so many important judgments he addedjustice mishra was the go to man for judges when they were in trouble with colleagues at one point then cji j s khehar had bypassed justice j chelameswar and extended the fivemember collegium to the sixth most senior judge justice chelameswar sought the good offices of justice mishra to get back into the collegiumstrangely it was justice chelameswar who led a rebellion of four seniormost judges against then cji dipak misra for allocation of the petition on judicial officer b h loyas death to a bench headed by justice mishra and who recused from the case again it was justice mishra who played a key role in restoring normalcy behind the courtrooms among colleagues when then cji ranjan gogoi faced sexual harassment charges it was justice mishra who presided over the bench after cji gogoi gave vent to his anguish over the manner in which a lobby was using a court assistant to defame him and destabilise the judiciary sc judges will lose a colleague who stood by them through thick and thin