CJI DY Chandrachud on Supreme Court: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud right now (November 3) urged attorneys not to search adjournments in contemporary issues, saying he doesn’t want the Supreme Court (SC) to become a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court. At the outset of the day’s proceedings, the CJI flagged the problem of attorneys in search of adjournments in contemporary issues and stated within the final two months adjournment slips have been moved in 3,688 issues by advocates.
“Unless it is very very necessary, please don’t file the adjournment slips. I don’t want this court to be a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court,” the CJI, who was sharing the bench with justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, stated.
“Tarikh-pe-Tarikh” (repeated adjournments) was a well-known Sunny Deol dialogue within the Bollywood movie “Damini” the place the actor rued the adjournment tradition in courts.
The CJI stated that now with the assistance of attorneys’ our bodies, the time hole within the itemizing of contemporary issues after their submitting within the high court has been considerably diminished. He, nevertheless, rued the truth that after their itemizing earlier than the benches, attorneys search adjournments and this provides a really unhealthy sign to the surface world.
“I have been seeing that the period from filing to listing is reducing. We could not have achieved this without the support of the SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association) and the SCAORA (Supreme Court Advocates-on Record Association),” the CJI stated.
“For November 3, we have 178 adjournment slips. For each miscellaneous day, since October, 150 adjournment slips were there on each day and from September to October, 3,688 adjournment slips were circulated,” the CJI stated, including, “This defeats the very objective of expediting the case”.
CJI additional said that he has been monitoring submitting to the primary listening to of issues to be certain that the interval is diminished to a minimal. The court stated that some issues are talked about for in search of adjournment.
(With PTI inputs)
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