Based on the brand new notification, the Supreme Courtroom’s places of work will now perform from 10:00 am to five:00 pm on all working days, excluding designated holidays and partial working days.
In a significant administrative overhaul, the Ministry of Regulation and Justice has notified the Supreme Courtroom (Modification) Guidelines, 2025, bringing second and fourth Saturdays again into the listing of working days for the apex court docket registry and places of work. As per a notification revealed within the Gazette of India, the modification will come into impact from July 14, 2025.
The adjustments fall beneath Order II, Guidelines 1 to three of the Supreme Courtroom Guidelines and introduce a revised framework for operational days and workplace timings. Based on the brand new notification, the Supreme Courtroom’s places of work will now perform from 10:00 am to five:00 pm on all working days, excluding designated holidays and partial working days. Nonetheless, solely pressing filings will probably be accepted after 4:30 pm on common weekdays.
Courtroom places of work to stay open on all Saturdays
In the meantime, the court docket workplace will now stay open on all Saturdays, together with people who have been historically off—i.e., the second and fourth Saturdays. On Saturdays, workplace hours will probably be from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, and pressing issues should be submitted earlier than 12:00 midday.
For particular holidays comparable to Christmas or New Yr’s Day, working hours will probably be decided and introduced by the Chief Justice of India on a case-by-case foundation. The complete textual content of the Supreme Courtroom (Modification) Guidelines, 2025 will probably be made out there on the official web sites of each the Supreme Courtroom of India and the Ministry of Regulation and Justice.
Justice BR Gavai sworn in as new CJI
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai was sworn in because the 52nd Chief Justice of India on Could 14. He has been a part of a number of benches that delivered landmark rulings together with the one upholding the Centre’s choice to abrogate provisions of Article 370 bestowing particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir. The 64-year-old was administered oath by President Droupadi Murmu at a short ceremony on the Ganatantra Mandap within the Rashtrapati Bhavan. CJI Gavai, who was elevated as a decide of the Supreme Courtroom on Could 24, 2019, may have a tenure of over six months and would demit workplace on November 23.