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NEW DELHI: Within days of the Supreme Court bar association (SCBA) getting its new office bearers, president Vikas Singh wrote to CJI S A Bobde seeking immediate resumption of physical hearing of cases, saying even the government has permitted congregation of 200 guests at marriage parties as Covid infection rate has fallen drastically.
Registering six common grievances against the glitch-ridden video conferencing system employed by the SC for virtual hearing since April last year, the SCBA president said Covid positivity rate in the country hovered around 0.3% and that in Delhi out of 5,751 hospital beds reserved for Covid patients only 437 are occupied; only one out of 7,392 beds in Covid care centre has a patient and all 307 beds in Covid health centres are unoccupied.
India News: NEW DELHI: With Covid vaccine administration opened for over 60 year-olds from Monday, the Supreme Court has begun the process to get its 30 judges, i.
The Bombay high court’s proposal for appointment of 18 advocates and four judicial officers as judges of the HC has run into serious problem in the Supreme Court collegium with senior SC judges red-flagging the “hasty” process of selection and the “integrity” of the candidates.
The 22 names were sent to the SC collegium during the 39-day tenure of Justice Bhushan Pradyumna Dharamdhikari as chief justice from March 20 to April 27, 2020.
The HC, the second largest after Allahabad HC, has a sanctioned strength of 94 judges but is functioning with 64 judges, including CJ Dipankar Datta.
According to procedure, the three-judge SC collegium comprising CJI S A Bobde and Justices N V Ramana and R F Nariman sought views on the 22 proposed names from Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and B R Gavai, as Bombay HC is the parent HC of all three.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court faces a crisis of sorts as its present judge strength has depleted below the numbers sanctioned more than a decade ago and the situation could worsen in future with no urgent steps being taken by the five-member Collegium led by Chief Justice S A Bobde to fill the vacancies.
The sanctioned strength of SC Judges was increased from 26 to 31, including the CJI, in 2009, but its present strength is 30 Judges. With five more retirements - Justice Indu Malhotra (March 13), CJI Bobde (April 23), Justices Ashok Bhushan (July 4), R F Nariman (August 12) and Navin Sinha (August 18) - scheduled in the next six months, the strength could deplete below 1988 level, when it was increased from 18 to 26. The number of SC judges was increased from 31 to 34 in 2019.