SC would hear urgent matters during summer vacation: CJI T S Thakur

NEW DELHI: In a bid to lessen pendency, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today said the Supreme Court would hear urgent matters during summer vacation and asked the bar body to chalk out the mechanism.

“We can sit during the summer vacation and hear urgent matters and I would talk to judges,” a bench, headed by the CJI, said when an advocate mentioned a matter in the morning seeking urgent listing.

“The Supreme Court Bar Association will welcome it,” senior advocate and SCBA President Dushyant Dave, who was present in the courtroom in connection with some other case, promptly responded.

The bench, which also comprised Justice R Banumathi, said there are vacation benches to hear and decide cases and additionally, some judges may be requested to sit during the vacation for according regular hearing in matters where lawyers are willing to appear and argue.

In long vacations, lawyers do not go out for the entire period, it said and asked Dave to chalk out modalities for hearing of cases during vacations.

The summer vacation of the apex court this year is scheduled from May 16 to June 28.