Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud On Tuesday, he mentioned he was “keeping a close watch on the backlog” to make sure that all new instances come up for listening to at once.
The CJI informed a lawyer who sought pressing itemizing of the matter: “I inform my registrar each morning, I’m conserving an in depth watch on the itemizing, my first precedence. Whatever is registered until Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, be sure it’s listed on subsequent Monday and issues registered on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday until subsequent Friday. ,
The CJI mentioned that he’s additionally conserving a tab on what number of instances are being verified by the Registry to take away defects.
Speaking at a felicitation perform organized by the Supreme Court Bar Association on Monday, the CJI had flagged the itemizing of instances within the Supreme Court as a “genuine problem”. He had mentioned that the court docket is attempting to remove the human interface with the assistance of expertise.
Pointing out that important efforts had been made to handle issues relating to itemizing throughout the tenure of former CJI UU Lalit, he mentioned the method must be institutionalized in order that it continues uninterrupted.
“Justice Lalit has taken very concrete steps towards creating a more transparent system. I propose to continue this and take forward the work done by Justice Lalit. We need to make our court listing transparent, objective and perhaps my aim is to employ technology to remove the element of human interface in the listing process as all discretion becomes a discretion not capable of being properly employed Is. ,” he mentioned on Monday.
He mentioned: “The court docket has already began engaged on it and we try to arrange the SOP in order that it doesn’t rely upon who’s the Chief Justice. It is necessary that we institutionalize these processes…it must be part of an institutional mechanism.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
