Overview

• Cases not pronounced within three months must be placed before the High Court Chief Justice, who will require pronouncement within two weeks or reassign the matter.
• Registrars General must submit monthly lists of reserved cases still awaiting judgments to the Chief Justice for three consecutive months.
• The Court criticized the practice of issuing final orders without reasoned judgments, saying it deprives parties of avenues for appellate relief.
• The directive arose from a review of an Allahabad High Court criminal appeal pending since 2008, where no judgment was delivered for nearly a year after the hearing.
• A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra ordered circulation of the ruling to all High Court registries for compliance and reiterated the Anil Rai precedent.