Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul had also recently highlighted the burden on judges in the higher judiciary.
Before he became CJI, Justice Chandrachud had said that hearings which go on beyond usual court hours ate into the judge’s time in chambers normally spent for research and writing judgments.
At the beginning of this year, Justice Kaul countered requests seeking that judges reduce their court vacations/breaks in order to tackle pendency before Indian courts.
“Nobody sees beyond those 4-5 hours in courts. We have to read for 7-8 hours before that, pen our judgments during the breaks,” the judge had said.
Source: Barandbench
