The Supreme Court has notified the new roster determining the allocation of cases to its different Benches, which comes into effect upon the reopening of the court post the winter break on January 4, 2021.The new roster is identical to the previous one notified in October.As per the new roster, PILs and letter petitions are to be dealt with by benches headed by CJI, Justices Ramana,...
The Supreme Court has notified the new roster determining the allocation of cases to its different Benches, which comes into effect upon the reopening of the court post the winter break on January 4, 2021.
The new roster is identical to the previous one notified in October.
As per the new roster, PILs and letter petitions are to be dealt with by benches headed by CJI, Justices Ramana, Nariman, Lalit, Khanwilkar, Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and Nageswara Rao.
Election matters, Social Justice matters and Habeas Corpus continue to remain with the bench headed by the CJI only.
Contempt of Court matters are allotted to the benches headed by the CJI and Justice U U Lalit.
Religious and Charitable Endowment Matters are allotted to the benches headed by Justices N V Ramana, UU Lalit, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan.
Arbitration Matters to benches of CJI, Justice Ramana, R F Nariman, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee.
The subject wise roster system was introduced by former CJI Dipak Misra in February 2018, in the backdrop of 'master of roster' controversy which erupted after the press conference by four senior judges, who alleged that the CJI was selectively assigning cases to benches of preferences, ignoring seniority of judges.