The two seniormost judges are Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna and after retiremeent of Kaul on December 25, 2023, the position will be filled by Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai.
The new roster for the assignment of fresh cases was notified by the apex court registry under the order of the CJI.
Justice Chandrachud’s predecessor, CJI U U Lalit, had allocated PILs to all the benches.
Subject wise, the CJI-led bench will be dealing with a maximum number of issues ranging from cases pertaining to indirect taxes, service matters, criminal appeals, election petitions, company law, habeas corpus matters and arbitration.
The matters relating to appointment of constitutional authorities and judicial officers, armed forces, admissions to educational institutions will also be dealt with by the CJI-led bench.
The subject-wise allocation of cases has been done for 15 senior judges who will be presiding benches in the apex court from July 3.
The 12 other presiding judges are B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose, A S Bopanna, Krishna Murari, S Ravindra Bhat, Hrishikesh Roy, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath, J K Maheshwari and Hima Kohli.
According to the new roster, arbitration matters will be heard by the benches led by the CJI, justices Kaul, Khanna, Bhat and Oka.
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