The Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear the government’s plea to recall one of its judgments dealing with the right to default bail, and grant an ex-parte ‘stay’ on it in the meantime, is ominous. It alerts us to the potential abuse of the powers of the ‘master of roster.’
On April 24, a division bench of the Supreme Court recalled an order issued by another division bench on April 13, directing the Union government to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of Low Density Polyethylene.
This was after Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta made an urgent mentioning in the morning stating that several cases are being filed based on this judgment
The Supreme Court (SC) has asked registrar generals of all high courts (HCs) to speed up the digitisation of records with promptitude at all district courts, preferably within the time prescribed for filing an appeal.