Supreme Court Mandates Swift Justice: New Deadlines for High Courts
The court also said bail orders should be pronounced the next day and undertrials released within 24 hours.
- On Friday, Chief Justice Surya Kant directed all High Courts to pronounce judgments within three months of reserving orders, issuing what the bench termed "binding directions" to prevent judicial delays across the country.
- These directives followed a petition from four convicts whose criminal appeals remained reserved by the Jharkhand High Court for three years, prompting the Court to address the delay as a wider institutional issue.
- Underlining urgency in personal liberty cases, the Supreme Court ordered that bail or sentence suspension orders must be pronounced the same day and all judgments uploaded to High Court websites within 24 hours of pronouncement.
- If a judgment is not delivered within three months, the Registrar General must notify the Chief Justice within two weeks, and cases exceeding the deadline must be reassigned to another bench for a fresh hearing.
- To ensure compliance, High Courts must generate automated monthly lists of pending reserved judgments, with copies placed before the respective Chief Justices and the bench concerned to strengthen judicial administration.
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Supreme Court Mandates Swift Justice: New Deadlines for High Courts
The Supreme Court has invoked its constitutional powers to direct all High Courts to deliver judgments swiftly, setting a three-month deadline for reserved judgments and same-day or next-day orders for bail cases. This move aims to ensure timely justice, especially at primary judicial institutions like High Courts.
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SC sets three-month deadline for reserved judgements, says bail orders should be pronounced same day
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Supreme Court directs high courts to pronounce judgement within 3 months of reserving order
In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday directed all high courts to pronounce judgement within 3 months of reserving order. Observing that delay causes irreparable loss to litigants, the Supreme Court asked the high courts across the country to pronounce judgements within three months from the date of reserving order. Underlining that faster decisions are required in cases of personal liberty, a bench comprising Chief Justice S…
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