Chief Justice of India Surya Kant broke the rule amid phenomenal levels of indebtedness at the apex court. File | Photo credit: ANI
A special bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will meet on Monday (December 22, 2025) to discuss urgent matters pending before the Supreme Court.
This special session has been arranged to ensure timely hearing of urgent cases that require immediate judicial intervention during the holidays.
The Supreme Court is closed for the Christmas and New Year holidays from 19 December to 5 January. No court work is usually done during this period.
However, the Chief Justice has broken this rule with regard to the phenomenal level of penalization in the apex court.
Chief Justice Kant made it clear during his first days as the chief justice that his biggest challenge will be bringing the nearly 90,000 pending cases at the Supreme Court down to a manageable number.
Judge Kant said his goal is to have a solution-based approach to addiction. One would be to identify seminal cases with important legal questions that have been resolved for years.
The Chief Justice pointed out that these pending cases had a “trickle-down” effect, effectively delaying lower courts or even the Supreme Court from deciding individual cases with related issues.
Untying the knot in these key cases through authoritative declarations of the law by the constitutional courts would allow judges, from the Supreme Court to the district courts, to resolve related cases before them.
He proposed setting up benches of nine and seven judges for such key cases.
Published – 20 Dec 2025 22:42 IST
