NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is experiencing an unusually heavy workload of PILs since Justice U U Lalit took over as the 49th CJI, as true to his words, he has pulled out PILs gathering dust from dingy storerooms of the Registry to list them along with freshly filed PILs.
Monday, as many as 228 PILs are listed for hearing before 15 benches. The downpour of PILs is causing a deluge in the CJI’s courtroom, the biggest in the SC. Of the 228 PILs, the PIL count in CJI’s court is 205, of which 189 challenge the validity of contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and are bunched together under one item.
