A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala assured Bano, represented through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, that the new bench will be formed at the earliest.
The time served by a judicial officer as an ad-hoc judge will not be considered to determine seniority and, consequently, elevation to High Court, the Supreme Court reiterated recently.
The Supreme Court recently asked the Madras High Court to take corrective measures after the top Court discovered that two conflicting orders were uploaded online by the High Court in the same case.
The petition of Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and seven members of her family slaughtered during the 2002 Gujarat riots, was scheduled to be heard on Tuesday by a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar