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Shamika Ravi Former Brookings Expert Economic Advisory Council Member to the Prime Minister and Secretary - Government of India This is a tentative and an exploratory analysis to assess the productivity of the Supreme Court of India (SC) under different Chief Justices of India (CJI) in terms of accomplished adjudications, which is its core function. In particular, we study the number of judgements passed by the apex court per day during the tenure of a CJI and its relationship with the proportion of tenure days when at least one judgement was passed by the SC. Our analysis is for the time period of January 26, 1950, until the September 2, 2019. It is important to mention upfront that important questions regarding jurisprudence, quality of judgement and independence of judiciary are beyond the scope of this paper. Some key observations: • Over this period, the Supreme Court of India has had 46 Chief Justices. We analyse the tenure of each CJI to study the productivity of the apex court and how it varied across CJIs. • The Indian Parliament increased the number of Judges in the Supreme Court of India from 8 in 1950 to 11 in 1956. This was further increased to 14 in 1960, 18 in 1978 and 26 in 1986. • Accomplished adjudications (Judgements passed): A total of 51,534 judgements have been passed by the SC during this 69-year period. The lowest number of judgements, 48, were passed during the tenure of CJI Amal Kumar Sarkar, who was in office from March 16, 1966 to June 29, 1966....

📰 FEATURE STORY Judging The Tenure Of Former CJI NV Ramana (Image credits: Profile picture of former CJI NV Ramana was sourced from As the former Chief Justice of India (CJI), NV Ramana, retired recently after serving an eight-year term in the Supreme Court, we thought we could take a look at whether his tenure was fruitful or less than satisfactory. Context Justice NV Ramana started his career as a journalist before becoming an advocate on 10 February 1983. His judicial journey began when he was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on 27 June 2000. He became the Acting Chief Justice of the AP High Court on 10 March 2013 and the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on 2 September 2013. He was appointed as the Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 February 2014. Eventually, he became the 48th Chief Justice of India on 24 April 2021 and retired on 26 August 2022. Before his elevation as the CJI, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that Justice Ramana and his relatives were involved in corruption relating to the acquisition of land in the city of Amravati. He also accused Justice Ramana of attempting to influence hearings in the AP High Court. CM Jagan asked the then CJI SA Bobde to initiate an investigation into his claims. However, an in-house enquiry into the complaints found that the allegations against Justice Ramana were meritless and the investigation was closed. Justice Ramana has been a part of 657 Benches and author...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana will retire on August 26th, 2022 after an 8-year tenure at the Supreme Court. Justice Ramana succeeded Former CJI S.A. Bobde on April 24th, 2021 . His tenure as CJI began at the onset of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coupled with a rising number of pending cases at the SC, it appeared that the majority of the challenges he was set to face would be administrative. Assessing the tenure of any Judge at the SC has two components. On one hand, the substantive effect of the Judgments they author will shape how the Court deals with those issues in the future. On the other hand, their judicial output—the number of cases they heard and decided, and the distribution of the subject matter of their decisions—serves as a tool to quantitatively assess their tenure. For former CJI’s, there is an added dimension to this quantitative analysis as they have additional responsibility of being the ‘ master of the roster ’. Was there an effect on the total number of pending cases in the SC while they served as Chief Justice? Here, we assess CJI Ramana’s tenure in numbers. CJI Ramana Has Longest Tenure Among All Sitting Judges Figure 1 displays the tenures of all sitting Supreme Court Judges alongside CJI Ramana at the time of his retirement. CJI Ramana, along with Justices D.Y. Chandrachud , U.U. Lalit , and Surya Kant , is projected to serve for eight years at the Supreme Court. CJI Ramana’s 8.5-year tenure is the longest among all sitting S...

Justice NV Ramana India's 48th Chief Justice took charge in April of 2021 and will retire on August 28. While his tenure stretched across 16 months, one would struggle to find noteworthy judgments that clarified on the constitutional law. However, what does come to mind, are the speeches given on public platforms. Justice NV Ramana India's 48th chief justice took charge in April of 2021 and will retire on August 28. While his tenure stretched across 16 months, one would struggle to find noteworthy judgments that clarified on constitutional law. However, what does come to mind, are the speeches given on public platforms. He was responsible for constituting an expert panel on the Pegasus case while directing that the Centre cannot use the bogey of national security to silence judicial inquiry. But it seems to have had little effect, with the technical committee also reporting that the Centre refused to clarify on use of Pegasus again citing national security. CJI Ramana can claim credit for staying the infamous sedition provisions. He also moved swiftly to cancel the bail of union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. The last few days were busy for him. He issued notice on plea against the remission of sentence of 11 rapists in the Bilkis Bano case.