After being appointed as the 47th chief justice of India (CJI) on Monday, it had been business as was common for Justice Sharad Bobde. On the primary day once his elevation, he detected as several as 30 cases in regarding 45 minutes. Presiding over a three-judge division bench comprising justices Bhushan Gavai and Suryakant, Justice Bobde suggested a litigator to require care of his wife whereas flaying him for adjourning hearings for 5 years. Chief justice of Jamaica supreme court Bryan Sykes and senior-most decide of Bhutan supreme court Kuenlay Tshering were sitting at the corner on the podium with the judges whereas cases were being detected. in keeping with city-based lawyers, who usually throng the apex court to listen to cases, this was for the primary time they were seeing 2 senior judges from different countries sitting on the dais. The entire court was full of lawyers and justice Bobde’s friends from Nagpur, who got a rare likelihood to pay attention to him. All of them had flown from town especially for the event. Different SC lawyers conjointly rush to his court to listen to him on his 1st day as CJI. According to the lawyers, being his initial day as CJI, he didn’t dismiss any case. In traditional courses, 60 minutes cases coming back to the highest court are dismissed. The CJI asked litigants in family disputes whether they had undergone mediation before approaching the highest court. As decide in Bombay high court and the apex court, he had taken several initiatives to push the idea of mediation. Before the beginning of the proceedings, the new CJI was congratulated on his elevation by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Young Lawyers’ Association. They needed him success and a fruitful tenure. After ending the court’s proceedings, the Nagpur-born CJI interacted with fellow judges within the SC in his chamber. Later, he conjointly met judges and lawyers from the Nagpur bench. Earlier, throughout a dinner organized by the Supreme Court’s written record, the new CJI chatted with lawyers and judges practicing there, as well as justice Bhushan Gavai, who is additionally from Nagpur. Judges and lawyers from Vidarbha, as well as justice Nitin Sambre, were conjointly invited with their families. Nagpur’s legal fraternity, once hailing Justice Bobde’s elevation to the CJI’s post, declared that he’s a result-oriented decide who resolves advanced problems with ease. Justice Bobde is already a part of the many landmark verdicts, as well as the correct to privacy and also the recent Ram Mandir-Babri musjid title case. Officer bearers of the high court Bar Association (HCBA), as well as president Gauri Venkatraman, VP Purushottam Patil and secretary Prafulla Khubalkar met Justice Bobde in his chamber to ask him for a felicitation operate that is probably going to be command within the second or third week of December.
