Five-member Constitution Bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi completed hearing of long-pending case-numbers WPC 32855 and 32856 of 2009 in April 2019. But the verdict on these cases filed by registry of Supreme Court against CIC-verdicts on various aspects with regard to the administration of the top court is still awaited. Hearing of the cases may lapse in case verdict does not come before retirement of Chief Justice on 17.11.2019.
There should be a set mechanism whereby verdicts by courts may compulsory be in a time-bound period of say three months after competition of hearing, but definitely before retirement of any of the bench-members. Practice may also be that verdicts on cases where hearing might have completed before long vacations (like summer vacations) may be given soon after the vacations.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL