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Hafta letters: CJI Chandrachud, Palestinians rights, culture desk

My letter is a response to Jayashree’s column pertaining to  CJI DY Chandrachud. Her attributing of adjournments in Umar Khalid’s case to CJI is disingenuous. Khalid’s plea has not even been listed once before the CJI’s bench. His plea has been listed before these 

Newslaundry · Jan 13, 2024

Adani-Hindenburg case: SC bats for institutional credibility over media, third-party claims

On November 24, hearing the petitions calling for a court-monitored CBI or SIT probe into US-based short seller Hindenburg Research’s allegations against Adani group, a three-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud had stated that it wasn’t convinced of any grounds for doubting the ongoing SEBI probe into…

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2024

It needs practice to preach: The dichotomy between informed criticism and activist outrage

An article published by Newslaundry on December 28, 2023 – titled “The gap he maintained: The dichotomy between CJI Chandrachud’s words and deeds in 2023” – which can, at best, be described as misplaced outrage, has led me to pen my thoughts in response. 

Newslaundry · Jan 3, 2024

Supreme Court comes out with fresh procedure for mentioning of cases for urgent listing before Benches

Fresh cases, verified by the registry on a Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, will be automatically listed for hearing before Supreme Court Benches on the following Monday and the lawyers need not mention them before the Chief Justice of India (CJI), a Supreme Court circular said.

The Hindu · Jun 29, 2023

SC comes out with fresh roster on allocation of cases to benches; top 3 benches to hear PILs

Justice Chandrachud’s predecessor, CJI U.U. Lalit, had allocated PILs to all the benches.

The Hindu · Jun 28, 2023

It’s raining PILs in Supreme Court, deluge in CJI’s court

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.

The Times of India · Sep 10, 2022