Two days after our Constitution came into force, the Supreme Court had its first sitting on the 28th of January 1950 at the Parliament House complex – the building which functioned as the Apex Court,.
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Chief Justice of India calls to commemorate first sitting of Supreme Court in 1950
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Six-judge bench was assembled with Prime Minister Nehru, 13 High Court judges in attendance.
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The inaugural sitting of the Supreme Court on January 28, 1950. | Photo Credit:
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Six-judge bench was assembled with Prime Minister Nehru, 13 High Court judges in attendance.
Seventy one years ago, the Supreme Court of India took its seat for the first time under a new Constitution in the Court Chamber in Parliament House on January 28.
Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde remembered the occasion of the inaugural sitting of the court with Attorney General K.K. Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta as soon as his Bench assembled on Thursday for hearing disputes through a virtual court system chiseled out of a necessity to render justice amid the shroud cast by a global pandemic and resultant lockdown.