SC seeks public aid to list judicial artefacts

NEW DELHI:In a bid to catalogue judicial artefacts from all over the country, the Supreme Court has sought information from the public on any information on such historical objects languishing anywhere. CJI Ranjan Gogoi and SA Bobde — next in line to CJI —are spearheading an attempt to refurbish the top court museum.

Justice Gogoi lamented the fact that the museum, which has many historic judgements such as the Godse death sentence judgement and the judgement that convicted the Indira Gandhi killers, was drawing very few visitors. “Attempts are being made to refurbish the museum,” CJI Gogoi told reporters last week. The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Justice Bobde said that the court has also sought information on any historical artefacts that might be lying in their vaults for cataloguing, but no such information has been forthcoming sofar, he said.