Judges reserving verdicts for years ‘an ailment’: Supreme Court

A litigant who approaches the court must get to know what judgment is given on his plea,” the CJI said. The same HC judge, Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay, was found to have kept several judgments pending for years, even in cases where the convicts had appealed against their capital and life sentences. The judge had delivered the verdicts in those cases only after SC took judicial notice of the same.