Echoing actor Sunny Deol’s famous dialogue in Bollywood film Damini, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Friday that he does not want the Supreme Court to become a “tarikh-pe-tarikh” court. Flagging the issue of lawyers seeking adjournments in fresh matters, he urged lawyers not to do so and said advocates moved adjournment slips in 3,688 matters in the last two months.
At the outset of the day’s proceedings, the CJI said: “Unless it is very very necessary, please don’t file the adjournment slips… I don’t want this court to be a tarikh-pe-tarikh (repeated adjournments) court,” said the CJI, who was sharing the bench with justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
In the movie Damini, too, with this dialogue Deol rues the adjournment culture in courts. The CJI said now with the help of lawyers’ bodies, the time gap in the listing of fresh matters after their filing in the top court has been significantly reduced.
He, however, said after their listing before the benches, lawyers seek adjournments and this gives a bad signal to the outside world. “I have been seeing that the period from filing to listing is reducing. We could not have achieved this without the support of the SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association) and the SCAORA (Supreme Court Advocates-on Record Association),” the CJI said.
“For November 3, we have 178 adjournment slips. For each miscellaneous day, since October, 150 adjournment slips were there on each day and from September to October, 3,688 adjournment slips were circulated…” the CJI said, adding, “this defeats the very purpose of expediting the case.”
(With PTI inputs)
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