New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- The Supreme Court on Friday rolled back its extraordinary August 4 directive that had barred an Allahabad high court judge from hearing any criminal cases for the remainder of his tenure and ordered him to sit with a senior colleague to "learn the nuances of law." A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said it was acting on a letter from Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai requesting reconsideration of the contentious directions. The CJI's intervention followed concerns that the top court may have overreached by issuing what effectively amounted to an administrative directive to a high court. "Since a request has been made by the CJI, we delete paragraphs 25 and 26," the bench said in its fresh order. In these two paragraphs, the bench had issued the unprecedented order of barring justice Prashant Kumar from handling any criminal matters for the rest of his judicial career, citing an "absurd" and "one of the worst" orders it had ever encountered. On Friday, the bench clarified that it never intended to "cause embarrassment or cast aspersion" on the Allahabad high court judge. "However, when an order is legally unjust and manifestly wrong, it becomes the constitutional duty of this court to intervene.," the bench said.P8...