Supreme Court News: ‘Tarikh Pay Tarikh’ Off: Supreme Court’s landmark judgment; Major changes in the rules for adjournment of hearings

• Historic change in Adjournment rules by Supreme Court
• The practice of frequent adjournments causes huge losses to the judiciary and common citizens
• Due to this practice crores of cases are pending in Indian courts

Supreme Court News: Due to the practice of frequent adjournment of hearings by the Supreme Court, many important cases continue to go on for years. The parties live under mental stress due to years of non-results. According to the saying “Justice delayed is justice denied”, the hope in a person’s life is wasted only on the steps of the court. But the Supreme Court has now decided to curb this tarikh pay tarikh practice.

According to a new circular issued by the Supreme Court on March 18, the rules for adjournment of hearings have been made more stringent. Importantly, the practice of date-paying-date will now be completely obsolete and requests for adjournment of hearings will now be accepted only in ‘extremely urgent’ situations.

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According to the order issued by the court, these new rules are set aside on 29th November 2025 and 2nd December 2025 and the new rules will be followed in their place. Under this, separate and strict rules have been laid down according to the nature of different cases. Due to repeated postponement of hearings, the pile of pending cases was increasing. But due to this new historic decision of the court, the court proceedings will speed up and the chances of common people getting justice in time have increased. The Supreme Court has made historic changes in the adjournment rules to speed up the judicial process. According to the new circular issued on March 18, no excuses will be accepted in ‘regular cases’. Once a case is listed for hearing, it is mandated to hear it without delay.

What are the new strict rules?

Advance Notice Mandatory: If a party wishes to adjourn the hearing, the other party must notify and provide evidence by 11:00 a.m. the day before the hearing.

OPPORTUNITY TO OBJECT: The other party can register his objection by email till 12 noon, which will be presented directly to the court.

Limited opportunities: Application for adjournment of hearing in new cases can be made only once. Also, adjournment of hearing twice consecutively is prohibited under any circumstances.

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Only ‘same’ reasons admissible: A date will not be granted unless there is a death of a family member, serious illness or a very compelling reason to the satisfaction of the court.

Interestingly, the number of times the extension of time has been taken by the person seeking adjournment of the hearing will also have to be mentioned in the application. This step of the Supreme Court is considered to be very important to reduce the pile of pending cases and provide speedy justice to the common man.

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