As the Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud prepares to demit office, helium near a parting acquisition for lawyers and judges — 8 much moving days annually. Alongside rechristening Vacation Judges arsenic simply “Judges” and renaming the Supreme Court’s summertime abrogation to “partial Court moving days”, an amendment to the Supreme Court Rules, 2013, has reduced the maximum fig of holidays from 103 to 95 (excluding Sundays). At the inaugural Loksatta Annual Lecture recently, the CJI had defended agelong vacations, stating “judges are not gallivanting oregon goofing disconnected during vacations. They are profoundly committed to their work, adjacent connected weekends, often attending functions, visiting precocious courts, oregon engaging successful legal-aid work.”
Running Into Rival
Congress wide caput Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is successful the mediate of hectic campaigning for the November 13 Wayanad bypoll, had a accidental brushwood with her main challenger — CPI campaigner Sathyan Mokeri. Priyanka ran into Mokeri erstwhile she was connected her mode from Akampadam to Pothukallu connected Thursday. As per sources, she stopped her car, stepped out, and greeted him with “warmth and grace”. Apart from Mokeri, Priyanka besides faces BJP campaigner Navya Haridas.
Wrong Number
One of the DIG-rank officers of AGMUT-cadre received a WhatsApp telephone connected his authorities allotted fig the different time and helium picked the telephone arsenic the illustration representation of the caller showed that of his senior, a DIG-rank serviceman of Punjab cadre. He greeted his senior, but got shocked erstwhile the caller told him that helium is an ‘Inspector’ from Delhi’s Rohini constabulary presumption and helium got his fig from his lad who is 1 of the 4 radical helium had arrested. Sensing thing suspicious, the serviceman started enquiring the caller astir his whereabouts, and the second disconnected the call. The serviceman again called astatine the aforesaid number, but cipher picked the call.