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Added on : 2019-09-21 07:32:28

For the first time in its nearly 70-year-long history, the Supreme Court is set to realise the dream of Constitution-framers by creating a permanent five-judge Constitution bench, to be available round the year to adjudicate complex constitutional questions and interpret laws.
Starting with a strength of eight judges in 1950, including the Chief Justice of India, the judges’ strength is now 34, with a recent amendment by Parliament after CJI Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlining the urgent need for an increase in SC judges’ strength in proportion to the increase in litigation.
 

For the first time in its nearly 70-year-long history, the Supreme Court is set to realise the dream of Constitution-framers by creating a permanent five-judge Constitution bench, to be available round the year to adjudicate complex constitutional questions and interpret laws.
Starting with a strength of eight judges in 1950, including the Chief Justice of India, the judges’ strength is now 34, with a recent amendment by Parliament after CJI Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlining the urgent need for an increase in SC judges’ strength in proportion to the increase in litigation.
 

Editor & Publisher : Dr Dhimant Purohit

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