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The application further stated that the High Courts appear to be best suited to deal with the situation, while seeking direction to allow the High Courts to continue dealing with the present issue.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while addressing the challenge faced by the Indian judiciary pertaining to delay in judicial appointments to various High Courts, urged the Central Government to speed up the process.

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat has directed that all high courts of the country will have to take expeditious steps to incorporate the Draft Rules 2021

The Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association (SCAORA) has moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of limitation period for filing petitions, applications, suits and appeals under all general and special laws before the Courts and Tribunals in view of the sudden increase in COVID-19 cases across the Country.

In an effort to reduce the backlog of cases, the Court has proposed the appointment of ad-hoc judges for High Courts. But they will only handle old cases, not new ones.

Justice Chandrachud informed that we have 38 million cases data available at the judgement search portal, 106 million cases are being disposed of, and the total number of orders is 142 million.

The Special Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Surya Kant was hearing the PIL filed by NGO Lok Prahari through its general secretary.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in all the petitions seeking regulation of the content on the over-the-top (OTT) Platforms, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, ZEE5 etc. pending before the High Courts.

The High Courts had 39% posts of Judges vacant against the approved strength of 1080 Judges in High Courts, only 661 are in position with 419 vacancies.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the petitioner Vishal Thakre and NGO PUCL to withdraw their petitions and approach the High Courts