5 days, 16 judgments: A look into key cases to be delivered by CJI Misra

A glimpse into the cases shows that many of them are of profound significance for the future of the country

The words, “please try to understand” will reverberate in Court No 1 in the Supreme Court for one last week from Monday, as the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, retires on October 2. The words, repeated quite often by the CJI during hearings in his court, suggest his innate persuasive skills, aimed at trying to get lawyers to see reason.

The bench presided over by him has been rising early for the past few days to find more time for giving finishing touches to the judgments still pending. And there are as many as 16 cases in which judgments are