ORAL JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR)

Date : 16-02-2024 None appears on behalf of the petitioner.

2. Earlier also when the matter was taken on 09.02.2024, there was none to represent the petitioner.

3. Learned counsel for the respondent(s) is present.

4. The present Public Interest Litigation has been filed for the following reliefs:-

“(i) For the issuance of a writ of Mandamus, and/or any other appropriate writ, direction/order commanding the respondents to frame rules for dealing with cases where High Court Judges reserve judgments/orders and do not deliver the same within three months.

(ii) For the issuance of a writ of Mandamus and/or any other appropriate writ/direction/order commanding the respondents to make it mandatory (in the High Court’s Rules) to adequately compensate those litigants in whose cases judgments/orders are reserved and not delivered within six months.”

5. Adverting the averments made in the writ petition showing certain instances of delay in delivery of judgments/orders, the petitioner has sought the afore-noted reliefs in view of the law laid down by the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of Anil Rai v. The State of Bihar [(2001) 7 SCC

318].

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