The Chief Justice of India on Wednesday took a serious view of a complaint alleging that the Supreme Court Registry had misplaced a case file, preventing an urgent matter from being registered and listed before the Court.

The issue was raised by counsel Shubhi Shivani Jaideep, who informed the Bench that a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed on June 8 had still not been registered.

“SLP was filed on 8th June, however it has not been registered by the Registry till date. We have written a representation to the Registrar. The case file appears to have been misplaced at the end of the Registry and because of this it has not been listed before the Court,” the counsel submitted.

Seeking urgent intervention, the counsel requested the Court to direct the Registry to trace the file, re-register the matter and list it urgently.

Responding, the CJI expressed concern over the allegation and said that if the Registry had indeed misplaced a file, it would warrant a deeper inquiry.

“It is a very serious matter if the Registry has misplaced the file. If our Registry is misplacing files in urgent matters, then do you think I will only spare the matter by directing listing? I must do something more. Please give me the details. I would like to look into this inefficiency, what is the reason behind it,” the CJI remarked.

The counsel informed the Court that no response had yet been received from the Registry despite representations being submitted, including one made the previous day.

The CJI then asked the counsel's Advocate-on-Record to immediately submit a formal complaint detailing the incident.

“Ask your AOR to give a complaint to me right now during the day. I am very much available. You can give me the complaint in chambers, you can give me the complaint at my residence. Give me the full details of how it has happened,” the CJI said.

The Chief Justice indicated that he would personally examine the complaint and the circumstances leading to the alleged misplacement of the case file.

The CJI has earlier also expressed dissatisfaction with the functioning of the registry. In May, he went so far as to say that the registry was "nasty," as many officers thought they were "Super Chief Justices". This was after the CJI noted that the Registry had failed to execute an order for issuance of notice to a respondent.

In another instance in February 2026, the CJI had expressed that the functioning of the registry required "deeper probe", after he noticed that similar matters were listed before different benches.