New Delhi (ILNS): A new roster, effective October 5, says that letter petitions and PIL matters will be assigned to benches lead by Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices NV Ramana, RF Nariman, UU Lalit, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and Nageswara Rao.
Matters pertaining to Election, Social Justice and Habeas Corpus have been exclusively assigned to the bench led by the Chief Justice, whereas matters relating to contempt of Courts have been assigned to benches led by the Chief Justice and Justice UU Lalit.
The Chief Justice, Justices NV Ramana, R F Nariman, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee have been assigned arbitration matters.
The benches headed by Justices N V Ramana, UU Lalit, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan will be dealing with Religious and Charitable Endowment Matters.
The bench headed by Justice Nariman will look into cases related to Company law, family and matters related to mercantile laws and commercial and banking transactions.
As per the earlier roster, PILs and social justice matters were assigned by the CJI and other three senior-most judges.
-India Legal Bureau