New mechanism for listing of matters in Supreme Court soon, says CJI U U Lalit

A new mechanism for the listing of matters will be devised soon Chief Justice of India U U Lalit said on Monday his first working day in the Supreme Court as the CJIHe asked lawyers to mention cases for urgent hearings before the registrar rather than requesting the first court to entertain such pleasWe will have a new mechanism by Thursday Till then we will look at it in chamber and if urgent we will list it For mentioning we will go back to the original practice of mentioning before the registrar the CJI saidThe observation came after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought to know about the mechanism of mentioning the matters before the benchAs the bench headed by the chief justice of India commenced proceedings for the day Mehta welcomed CJI Lalit and assured him of full support from the government Senior advocate Dushyant Dave also wished the CJI on behalf of the entire barAlso Read Justice U U Lalit sworn in as 49th Chief Justice of IndiaOver 900 petitions including 60 PILs were listed before the top court on Monday along with pleas against the Karnataka High Court verdict that wearing hijab by women doesnt form an essential part of religious practice in IslamCJI Lalit who was holding the bench along with Justice S Ravindra Bhat heard 62 petitions out of which 10 were Public Interest LitigationsJustice Uday Umesh Lalit the seniormost judge in the Supreme Court was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India CJI on SaturdayAs CJI Justice Lalit will have a short tenure of 74 days and demit office on November 8 on attaining the age of 65 years Justice D Y Chandrachud the seniormost judge after Justice Lalit is next in line to be the countrys top judgeJustice S M Sikri who became the 13th CJI in January 1971 was the first lawyer to be elevated directly to the top court in March 1964Justice Lalit who was a senior advocate before being appointed a judge of the apex court on August 13 2014 has been part of several landmark verdicts including the one which held the practice of divorce through instant triple talaq among Muslims illegal and unconstitutionalHe was appointed a special public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial in the 2G spectrum allocation caseJustice Lalit will be the sixth chief justice of India to have a tenure of less than 100 days Justice Kamal Narain Singh who was the CJI between November 25 1991 and December 12 1991 had a tenure of 18 daysWhile Justice S Rajendra Babu had a tenure of 30 days between May 2 and May 31 2004 Justice J C Shah was the CJI for 36 days between December 17 1970 and January 21 1971Justice G B Patnaik had a 41day tenure from November 8 to December 18 2002 and Justice L M Sharma had a tenure of 86 days between November 18 1992 and February 11 1993This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever