Lawyers oppose ‘communication’ asking judges not to issue final orders during vacation | Delhi News

The bail order was later stayed by the Delhi High Court on an appeal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). District courts in Delhi were closed for summer vacation from June 10 to June 29. During this period, judicial officers take turns as vacation judges.

The lawyers’ body claimed that an administrative order had been issued directing the vacation judges not to issue any significant orders in cases during their vacations. However, the lawyers’ body did not make any such administrative order available to the media.

“It is known that Justice Nyaya Bindu had granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on June 20…. However, several advocates have complained that soon after the order was passed, the District Judge of Rouse Avenue Court passed an internal administrative order directing all the benches sitting on leave not to pass any final orders in any case and only issue notices to the regular benches sitting on leave,” the letter said. It alleged that such an order was not only “administratively and procedurally irregular but also a travesty of justice”.

“The whole purpose of the rest benches is that there are urgent matters that require attention even during the holidays, and issuing such an administrative order would defeat the very purpose of the rest benches,” the letter reads.