A litigant appearing in person was forcibly removed from the Supreme Court after allegedly abusing the Bench and throwing case papers during a hearing challenging an Allahabad High Court order. The incident before Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe briefly disrupted court proceedings.
The Madras High Court ruled that advocates have no vested or fundamental right to demand out-of-turn listing of pending cases. Dismissing a lawyer’s plea, the Court held that only genuinely urgent matters may receive priority through established judicial procedures and exceptional listing protocols.
The Supreme Court urged IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri and IPS officer D Roopa Moudgil to resolve their long-running dispute through mediation, observing that continued litigation was harming both careers. The Court made the remarks while hearing Sindhuri’s challenge to criminal defamation proceedings.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant observed that international arbitration is increasingly mirroring the delays, costs, and procedural complexities of traditional litigation. Speaking in London, he cautioned that arbitration faces growing challenges relating to efficiency, accessibility, affordability, and effective dispute resolution.
