What Ails India’s Supreme Court

Something’s bugging the apex court of this country.

Something’s bugging the apex court of this country. ‘Supreme court judges being brought down left, right and center… by a bug! Justice Bobde unwell now,’ tweeted @courtwitness1 on 29 July. Eight judges in the past four weeks have been missing sittings due to ill health. The latest to join the count, according to notices posted on the Supreme Court’s website, are Justice Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice MY Eqbal. The reason stated for their absence is ‘non-availability’. There has been no official statement on judges being under the weather. But the need for them to be fighting fit again is evident in the fact that of the 69,446 pending matters for the month of July, 44,298 are incomplete and cannot be listed for ‘hearing’ at the apex court.

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