Team Herald
NEW DELHI: The hearing on the Goa mining cases, including the State government’s plea to tag its last November review petition on the February 2018 judgment, on Wednesday went by default as the Bench of Justices Dhananjay Chandrachud and K M Joseph did not sit to hear any cases listed before it.
The Bench was already truncated since Justice Indu Malhotra is unwell and Justice Joseph too remained tied up with a special hearing with Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on a petition of Sanjay Singh and 56 others against the UP government on an education matter, in which over 100 others have joined as impleaders and intervenors.
It was announced that all miscellaneous matters listed before the Bench of Justices Chandrachud and Joseph would be accommodated on Friday or at a later date. Already 29 cases are listed before the Bench, which also includes Justice Indu Malhotra, on Friday and hence remote chances of Wednesday matters getting adjusted.
The registry did not immediately fix the new date for hearing the Goa case or 14 other cases that got postponed as the Bench did not assemble.
