Supreme Court signs MoU with Bhutan apex court for exchange of law clerks, says CJI Surya Kant

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant connected Monday (January 5, 2026) said that the Supreme Court has entered into a memorandum of knowing (MoU) with the apex tribunal of Bhutan to facilitate the speech of young ineligible professionals.

The CJI, astatine the outset of the proceedings, said that nether the MoU, 2 instrumentality clerks from Bhutan volition beryllium engaged by the Supreme Court present for a play of 3 months.

“The clerks volition person the aforesaid honorarium arsenic Indian instrumentality clerks, and their question expenses volition beryllium borne by the Supreme Court,” the CJI said. Introducing the instrumentality clerks to the packed courtroom, the CJI described them arsenic “young and bright” and said they would beryllium assigned to enactment successful antithetic courts during their tenure.

“We person entered into an MOU with the Supreme Court of Bhutan, and based connected which, determination volition beryllium 2 instrumentality clerks who volition beryllium paid based connected our honorarium and volition beryllium determination for a play of 3 months. We volition beryllium taking attraction of their travelling, some volition beryllium moving successful antithetic courts, some are precise bright,” the CJI said.

“The inaugural is aimed astatine strengthening judicial practice and enhancing organization ties betwixt the 2 countries,” helium added.