Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gawai said on Wednesday that lawyers do not want to work during the holidays, but judges are held responsible for the increasing burden (backlog) of cases.
Actually, the bench of CJI Gawai and Justice Augustine George Christ was hearing a case. A lawyer then demanded to hear his petition after a summer holiday.
Work will be done in partial functioning even in summer
The Supreme Court has recently issued a notification, stating that the court will continue to work partially from May 26 to July 13.
During this time, 2 to 5 benches will sit every week. The special thing is that five judges of the Supreme Court, including CJI themselves, will hear cases even during the holidays, whereas earlier it was not done. Earlier there were only two vacation benches and senior judges did not come to court on holidays.
CJI Gawai will also come to court even during the holidays
From 26 May to 1 June, CJI Gawai, Justice Suryakant, Justice Vikram Nath, Justice B. V. Nagratna and Justice JK will hear the Maheshwari cases.
During this period, the registry of the Supreme Court will be open from Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm. Registry will be closed on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
83 thousand cases pending in Supreme Court, the largest number ever
There are 82,831 cases pending in the Supreme Court, the country’s Supreme Court. This is the largest number of pending cases so far. 27,604 pending cases alone have been registered within the last one year.
According to the Times of India report, 38,995 new cases were registered in the Supreme Court in 2024. Of these, 37,158 cases were settled. The number of pending cases has increased 8 times in the last 10 years. Pending cases decreased in 2015 and 2017.
At the same time, the High Court had a total of 41 lakh pending cases in 2014, which has now increased to 59 lakhs. Pending cases have decreased only once in the last 10 years. More than 5 crore cases are pending in all the courts (Supreme Court, High Court, District and other courts).
