CJI to hold special vacation sitting on December 22 to hear urgent cases

A Special Vacation Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will assemble on Monday (December 22, 2025) to take up urgent matters for hearing in the Supreme Court.

This special sitting has been arranged to ensure timely consideration of pressing cases that require immediate judicial intervention during the vacation period.

The Supreme Court is closed for Christmas and New Year vacations from December 19 till January 5. Usually no judicial work is done during this period. 

However, the Chief Justice has broken the rule amidst the phenomenal pendency rate in the top court.

Chief Justice Kant had made it clear during the initial days of his tenure as top judge that his biggest challenge would be to bring the almost 90,000-case pendency in the Supreme Court to a manageable number.

Justice Kant had said he aimed to have a solution-based approach to pendency. One of them would be to identify crucial cases with important questions of law, pending for years.

The Chief Justice had pointed out that these pending cases had a trickle-down effect, and, in effect, stalled lower courts, or even the Supreme Court, from deciding individual cases with connected issues.

Untying the knot in these core cases through authoritative declarations of the law by Constitution Benches would allow judges, from the Supreme Court to the district courts, to dispose of the connected cases pending with them.

He had proposed to set up nine-judge and seven-judge Benches for such pivotal cases.