With little more than two months till retirement on November 8, the 49th Chief Justice of India, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, is looking at a tenure that is set to be a race against time. Especially given the holiday-heavy court schedule this time of the year.
While September is a full working month, the court is scheduled to work for only 14 days in October. However, if the CJI wills it and other judges co-operate, cases can be heard through the Dussehra and Diwali vacations. Chief Justice Khehar (as he was then) heard the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) case through the summer vacations of the court in 2015.
Certain statements made by Chief Justice Lalit has suggested that he intends to meet head-on the challenges confronting the Supreme Court.
