SC trashes 13,147 previous circumstances in a single stroke to unclog justice supply system at prime courtroom
By PTI
NEW DEL In an enormous step in direction of unclogging the highest judiciary burdened with humongous pendency of circumstances, the Supreme Court has, in a single huge sweep, binned 13,147 previous “diarized but unregistered” circumstances, together with one filed greater than three many years in the past.
An order issued by Registrar Judicial-1 Chirag Bhanu Singh on Thursday stated all these circumstances have been filed greater than eight years in the past however the defects identified by the Registry to the respective counsel or petitioners in-person weren’t “cured”.
The circumstances received the diary numbers previous to the yr 2014, and the record included a case filed means again in 1987.
These petitions simply sat idly within the Registry, including to the ever-growing pendency.
As per the information uploaded on the Supreme Court web site, there have been as many as 70,310 pendig circumstances as on September 1, 2022.
These included 51,839 miscellaneous issues and 18,471 associated to common listening to.
The order by the Supreme Court registrar stated the events to the circumstances seemingly don’t intend to prosecute the litigations any additional as they didn’t treatment the defects even after a lapse of a number of years.
“These bunch of 13,147 unregistered but diarized cases have been registered prior to the year 2014, to be precise before August 19, 2014. These cases had been filed more than 8 years ago. As per the practice then in vogue, the matters had been returned to the counsel/petitioner-in-person for rectifying the defects noticed in the matters respectively. They have never been rectified ever,” the order stated.
“For all the reasons discussed hereinabove, I am constrained but to hold that there is no valid and plausible reason to allow the aforesaid matters to be received for registration. I decline to register the aforesaid diary numbers,” it famous.
The courtroom official stated, in consonance with the sooner follow no papers have been retained by the registry whereas notifying the defects.
The counsel would file an entire set of pleadings solely after curing all of the defects so notified.
It was solely after August 19, 2014 a provision was made to retain one copy of the plaint and courtroom charge stamps with the Registry.
Under the previous guidelines, the events involved have been to treatment the defects inside 28 days, which was prolonged as much as 90 days.
“The parties have failed to take any effective steps for years at end to rectify and cure the defects so notified. The statutory period for curing the defects is well over. Seemingly the parties do not intend to prosecute the lis (litigation) any further. Umpteen numbers of years were allowed to the parties to cure the defects, but to no avail,” the registrar’s order stated.
The official stated “no steps worth the name” have been taken by any of the events involved to even search enlargement of time to treatment the defects after the completion of 28 days.
“It is also not the case that the defects were merely formal in nature. The defects have remained unaltered till date and that too for no reasonable cause. It is not days, but years that have gone by. One of the oldest diary numbers relating back as far as the year 1987.”
“No effective steps have ever been taken by anyone to even keep the lis (litigation) alive. The matters have died with the efflux of time itself. Nothing, literally survives now,” it stated.
Out of the 70,310 circumstances pending within the apex courtroom as on September 1, 2022, 17.28 per cent or 12, 092 circumstances are miscellaneous issues that are incomplete or not prepared and the place preliminaries must be accomplished.
The information confirmed there are 493 issues earlier than numerous Constitution benches.
Of these, 343 are pending earlier than five-judge benches, 15 with seven-judge benches and 135 are issues that must be heard by nine-judge Constitution benches.
Justice U U Lalit, who took over because the forty ninth Chief Justice of India on August 27, has laid explicit emphasis on clearing the pending circumstances and below him the apex courtroom has adopted a brand new system of itemizing circumstances.
Responding to his felicitation by the Supreme Court Bar Association on Thursday, Justice Lalit had stated since August 29, when the brand new system was launched, until September 14, 5,200 circumstances have been determined by the highest courtroom as in opposition to 1135 contemporary filings.
NEW DEL In an enormous step in direction of unclogging the highest judiciary burdened with humongous pendency of circumstances, the Supreme Court has, in a single huge sweep, binned 13,147 previous “diarized but unregistered” circumstances, together with one filed greater than three many years in the past.
An order issued by Registrar Judicial-1 Chirag Bhanu Singh on Thursday stated all these circumstances have been filed greater than eight years in the past however the defects identified by the Registry to the respective counsel or petitioners in-person weren’t “cured”.
The circumstances received the diary numbers previous to the yr 2014, and the record included a case filed means again in 1987.
These petitions simply sat idly within the Registry, including to the ever-growing pendency.
As per the information uploaded on the Supreme Court web site, there have been as many as 70,310 pendig circumstances as on September 1, 2022.
These included 51,839 miscellaneous issues and 18,471 associated to common listening to.
The order by the Supreme Court registrar stated the events to the circumstances seemingly don’t intend to prosecute the litigations any additional as they didn’t treatment the defects even after a lapse of a number of years.
“These bunch of 13,147 unregistered but diarized cases have been registered prior to the year 2014, to be precise before August 19, 2014. These cases had been filed more than 8 years ago. As per the practice then in vogue, the matters had been returned to the counsel/petitioner-in-person for rectifying the defects noticed in the matters respectively. They have never been rectified ever,” the order stated.
“For all the reasons discussed hereinabove, I am constrained but to hold that there is no valid and plausible reason to allow the aforesaid matters to be received for registration. I decline to register the aforesaid diary numbers,” it famous.
The courtroom official stated, in consonance with the sooner follow no papers have been retained by the registry whereas notifying the defects.
The counsel would file an entire set of pleadings solely after curing all of the defects so notified.
It was solely after August 19, 2014 a provision was made to retain one copy of the plaint and courtroom charge stamps with the Registry.
Under the previous guidelines, the events involved have been to treatment the defects inside 28 days, which was prolonged as much as 90 days.
“The parties have failed to take any effective steps for years at end to rectify and cure the defects so notified. The statutory period for curing the defects is well over. Seemingly the parties do not intend to prosecute the lis (litigation) any further. Umpteen numbers of years were allowed to the parties to cure the defects, but to no avail,” the registrar’s order stated.
The official stated “no steps worth the name” have been taken by any of the events involved to even search enlargement of time to treatment the defects after the completion of 28 days.
“It is also not the case that the defects were merely formal in nature. The defects have remained unaltered till date and that too for no reasonable cause. It is not days, but years that have gone by. One of the oldest diary numbers relating back as far as the year 1987.”
“No effective steps have ever been taken by anyone to even keep the lis (litigation) alive. The matters have died with the efflux of time itself. Nothing, literally survives now,” it stated.
Out of the 70,310 circumstances pending within the apex courtroom as on September 1, 2022, 17.28 per cent or 12, 092 circumstances are miscellaneous issues that are incomplete or not prepared and the place preliminaries must be accomplished.
The information confirmed there are 493 issues earlier than numerous Constitution benches.
Of these, 343 are pending earlier than five-judge benches, 15 with seven-judge benches and 135 are issues that must be heard by nine-judge Constitution benches.
Justice U U Lalit, who took over because the forty ninth Chief Justice of India on August 27, has laid explicit emphasis on clearing the pending circumstances and below him the apex courtroom has adopted a brand new system of itemizing circumstances.
Responding to his felicitation by the Supreme Court Bar Association on Thursday, Justice Lalit had stated since August 29, when the brand new system was launched, until September 14, 5,200 circumstances have been determined by the highest courtroom as in opposition to 1135 contemporary filings.
