New roster system in Supreme Court from July 3. All you need to know
2 min read 30 Jun 2023, 10:25 AM ISTSupreme Court of India introduces new roster for case allocation, aimed at transparency & expertise. CJI-led bench to hear maximum number of cases.
PremiumSupreme Court of India has come with a new roster for the allocation of cases to fresh cases. The new roster was notified by the Supreme Court registry and will come into effect after the top court reopens post summer vacation break on July 3.
Reportedly, the new system has been brought in to bring in more transparency in the top court and also takes into domain expertise of judges along with pendency and inflow of cases.
Under the new roster, new cases arising out of letters written to the Supreme Court and new public interest litigations (PILs) will be heard by a bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and two senior most judges namely, Justice SK Kaul and Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
The new system is stark contrast to the one adopted by former CJI UU Lalit where PILs were allocated to all benches.
In terms of subject-wise allocation, the bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud will hear the maximum number of cases with issues varying from indirect taxes, service matters, criminal appeals, election petitions, company law, habeas corpus matters and arbitration.
The CJI-led bench will also deal with matters relating to appointment of constitutional authorities and judicial officers, armed forces, admissions to educational institutions will also be dealt with by the CJI-led bench.
As per the new roster, subject-wise allocation of cases has been done for different benches of the Supreme Court and will be headed by 15 senior judges. Apart from CJI and two senior most judges, other judges heading the benches include B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose, A S Bopanna, Krishna Murari, S Ravindra Bhat, Hrishikesh Roy, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath, J K Maheshwari and Hima Kohli.
Furthermore, Supreme Court registry also announced a new procedure for listing urgent cases before the top court. Under the new process, Miscellaneous fresh matters will be verified on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday and will be automatically listed on the next Monday. While the cases that are verified on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be listed for hearing on the following Friday.
(With inputs from agencies)
