Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, during his appearance at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, highlighted the importance of judges retiring to allow succeeding generations to identify and rectify past errors, ultimately reshaping legal principles for societal progress. Speaking at the event, Chandrachud shed light on the retirement age of judges, drawing comparisons between the American and Indian legal systems.
The American SC entertains about 5,000 to 8,000 cases a year and their nine SC judges decide about 80 to 100 cases in a year, whereas we have already disposed of 72,000 cases this year with two months remaining, CJI Chandrachud said
"Unless it is very very necessary, please don t file the adjournment slips.I don t want this court to be a tarikh-pe-tarikh court," the CJI, who was sharing the bench with justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, said.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee (AIMC) is challenging the withdrawal of the case from one single judge bench and its assignment to some other bench by the chief justice of the high court.