The Chief Justice of India (CJI), DY Chandrachud, issued a plea to legal professionals on Friday, urging them to not request postponements for brand spanking new circumstances. He expressed his need to forestall the Supreme Court docket from turning right into a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ courtroom, the place circumstances are endlessly postponed.
At the start of the day’s proceedings, the CJI raised the priority of legal professionals ceaselessly looking for adjournments for contemporary circumstances. He famous that previously two months, advocates had requested adjournments in 3,688 circumstances.
The CJI, who presided over the bench alongside Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, emphasised that until completely essential, legal professionals ought to chorus from submitting adjournment requests. He said, “I do not need this courtroom to develop into a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ courtroom,” referencing a well-known Bollywood dialogue from the film “Damini,” wherein the actor Sunny Deol lamented the tradition of repeated adjournments in courts.
The CJI acknowledged that due to the collaboration with legal professionals’ associations, the time between submitting contemporary circumstances and their itemizing within the Supreme Court docket had considerably decreased. Nevertheless, he expressed disappointment that even after circumstances had been listed, legal professionals usually sought adjournments, which conveyed a detrimental message to the general public.
He famous, “I’ve noticed a discount within the time from submitting to itemizing. This achievement wouldn’t have been doable with out the help of the SCBA (Supreme Court docket Bar Affiliation) and the SCAORA (Supreme Court docket Advocates-on Document Affiliation).”
The CJI highlighted that on November 3, there have been 178 adjournment requests, and on miscellaneous days since October, there have been 150 adjournment requests every day. In whole, from September to October, 3,688 adjournment requests had been made. He concluded, “This defeats the very function of expediting the case.”
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