Overview

• Judges arrived in Ranthambore on Friday and are scheduled to return to Delhi on Sunday evening, according to on-the-ground reporting.
• They traveled from Delhi in two Volvo buses to the Taj Sawai Resort and shifted to open jeeps for the park safari.
• Chief Justice B. R. Gavai and senior judges including Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and K. V. Vishwanathan described the trip as a brief recreational break together.
• Sources said each judge is paying travel and lodging costs out of pocket, consistent with prior guidance that such trips are not publicly funded.
• The retreat continues a practice started with a Visakhapatnam trip under then CJI Sanjiv Khanna that was designed to build camaraderie among judges.