February 1, 2018 6:10 PM

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SC adopts roster system for allocation of matters, CJI keeps PIL cases

The Supreme Court today adopted a roster system for the allocation of matters to the judges with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra deciding to keep to himself the Public Interest Litigation cases. The order of the CJI was made public on the official website of the apex court.<br/><br/>The 13-page notification said a roster of the work for fresh cases notified under the order of the CJI will come into effect from the 5th of this month till further orders.<br/><br/>The decision to make public the roster system assumes significance as four senior-most judges — Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph — in their 12th January press conference had questioned the allocation of sensitive PILs and important cases to judges junior in seniority order. <br/><br/>The notification has given the description of matters that would be allocated to the benches headed by the CJI and 11 other judges.

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