Chief Justice Gavai Bats for Central Agency To Screen Govt Appeals, Flags Pendency Crisis

Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai on Saturday called for the creation of a centralised mechanism to filter government appeals before they reach higher courts, emphasising that such a step would help ease the massive pendency of cases across the judicial system. Speaking at the 10th All India Conference of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in the capital, chief justice Gavai underlined that government departments often pursue appeals against tribunal or high court decisions without applying proper scrutiny. This practice, he warned, is a major contributor to the mounting backlog. “Some central agency should decide whether a matter really deserves to be appealed or not. That will greatly reduce pendency of matters before courts,” the chief justice says. Justice