Lengthy arguments, hasty decisions: One SC bench is bearing all burdens

In view of the heavy burden falling on this bench, the work could have been distributed among other senior judges Supreme Court

The truncated hearing of the Aadhaar case by a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court started on January 17 and as of now, there is no end in sight. The Supreme Court does not set a strict time schedule for arguments unlike its counterparts in the US and some other countries. So arguments drag on for months. It is a convention which no Chief Justice has been able to break. Naturally, minds of those who attend the hearing tend to wander and speculate on what would happen in the coming months.

Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who presides over the bench,