Supreme Court of India’s Circular on Urgent Matters during Summer Vacations

The Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Justice N.V. Ramana, in order to meet the demand for justice and hearing matters, which are extremely important during the rescheduled summer vacation for the year 2021, released certain directions on May 7, 2021. The directions given were as follows:

1. Two division benches will conduct hearings from May 10^{th, 2021, to} May 16th, 2021, and from May 17^th, 2021 to May 25th, 2021, through video conferencing. The hearings must be conducted only two days a week (Tuesday and Friday).
2. The matters which are mentioned as extremely urgent by the Advocate or the parties and in order to get the case listed during summer vacation before the vacation benches may send the request to do so with appropriate reasons for urgent listing online in the email address mention.sc@sci.nic.in
3. The urgent matters received upto Thursday will be listed on Tuesday.
4. The urgent matters received upto Monday will be listed on Friday.
5. The Constitution for other parts of the vacation (2^nd and 3^rd) i.e. from 26^th May 2021 to 10^th June 2021 and 11^th June 2021 to 27^th June 2021 respectively will be notified later on.