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A Special Vacation Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi volition assemble connected Monday (December 22, 2025) to instrumentality up urgent matters for proceeding successful the Supreme Court.
This peculiar sitting has been arranged to guarantee timely information of pressing cases that necessitate contiguous judicial involution during the abrogation period.
The Supreme Court is closed for Christmas and New Year vacations from December 19 till January 5. Usually nary judicial enactment is done during this period.
However, the Chief Justice has breached the regularisation amidst the phenomenal pendency complaint successful the apical court.
Chief Justice Kant had made it wide during the archetypal days of his tenure arsenic apical justice that his biggest situation would beryllium to bring the astir 90,000-case pendency successful the Supreme Court to a manageable number.
Justice Kant had said helium aimed to person a solution-based attack to pendency. One of them would beryllium to place important cases with important questions of law, pending for years.
The Chief Justice had pointed retired that these pending cases had a trickle-down effect, and, successful effect, stalled little courts, oregon adjacent the Supreme Court, from deciding idiosyncratic cases with connected issues.
Untying the knot successful these halfway cases done authoritative declarations of the instrumentality by Constitution Benches would let judges, from the Supreme Court to the territory courts, to dispose of the connected cases pending with them.
He had projected to acceptable up nine-judge and seven-judge Benches for specified pivotal cases.
