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NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant has devised 4 categories of cases to prioritise listing and proceeding of petitions filed by socially, physically, and financially disadvantaged people. The caller categories of cases subordinate to those filed by disabled radical and acerb onslaught survivors, by elder citizens supra 80 years, persons who are beneath poorness enactment and those who person approached the tribunal done ineligible assistance services that supply escaped advocator assistance to mediocre litigants. The caller categorisation was needed arsenic their cases utilized to get mislaid successful the assemblage of 800-odd cases that get listed connected Mondays and Fridays, the 2 days successful a week erstwhile 16 benches of SC entertain caller petitions and find whether these necessitate longer hearing. A circular by the SC registry said, "Members of the Bar, parties-in-person and each stakeholders are required to invariably notation the applicable head... nether which the substance really falls, successful each the caller petitions to beryllium filed... and taxable an due application/letter on with the documentary impervious issued by an due govt authorization successful this regard."SC handled 75k cases successful 2025, unmatched by immoderate apical courtFurther, each acrophobic are besides requested to supply the said details successful pending matters/cases to alteration the registry to appropriately update the substance nether the respective head.
This volition alteration the registry to prioritise listing of specified cases," it said. The humongous measurement of cases handled by the highest tribunal of the state is unmatched by immoderate country's Supreme Court, by a immense margin. In 2025, arsenic galore arsenic 75,280 cases were filed successful SC - 51,357 civilian and 23,923 criminal. It decided 65,403 (87% of the full filing), 42,793 civilian and 22,610 criminal. In contrast, though thousands of cases are filed each twelvemonth successful US Supreme Court, it accepts lone 70-80 cases for arguments.
Till Dec 29, UK Supreme Court had received small implicit 200 cases and gave judgments successful astir 50 cases. Their Indian counterpart gave 1,400 lengthy judgments and thousands of orders to dispose of cases. SC, which saw 3 CJIs successful 2025 successful Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai and Surya Kant, volition not spot a caller CJI till Feb 2027, erstwhile Justice Kant retires. In 2027, SC volition spot a grounds 4 CJIs - Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath (from Feb to Sep), BV Nagarathna (for 37 days) and PS Narasimha.
