Respondent Moot Court
Respondent Moot Court
MOOT COURT
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. OF 2022
VERSUS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
US United States
UOI Union of India
SC Supreme court
HC High court
SEC Section
CPC Civil procedure code
CRPC Criminal Procedure
code
R/W Read with
ART Article
AMD Amendment
SCC Supreme court cases
AIR All India report
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Index of authority 3
Acts referred 4
Books referred 5
Statement of Jurisdiction 6
Synopsis of facts 7
Statement of issues 8
Summary of pleadings 9
Arguments Advanced 10
Prayers 20
INDEX OF AUTHORITY
CASES REFERED
ACTS REFERRED
BOOKS REFERED
STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION
(2) The Supreme Court shall have power to issue directions or orders
or writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus,
prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, whichever may be
appropriate, for the enforcement of any of the rights conferred by
this Part.
(4) The right guaranteed by this article shall not be suspended except
as otherwise provided for by this constitution”
SYNOPSIS OF FACTS
Indica is a megadiverse country, all being governed
under the largest constitution under which the citizens derive their
respective rights, power and bases for establishing, empowering and
creating all aspects for running and governing a country like Indica.
The Supreme Court of Indica situated at New Deli, the
capital of the country. The Chief Justice of Indica is the head and
Chief Judge of the Supreme Court which consists of a maximum of
34 number of judges and has extensive powers in the form of
original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
STATEMENT OF ISSUE
SUMMARY OF PLEADINGS
1.Increase in state expenditure
Establishment of permanent regional benches of
supreme court can increase the state expenditures of those states
where the regional benches of the Supreme court are established.
3.Personal bias
4.Political bias
ARGUMENTS ADVANCED
The Law Commission itself had stated in its 229th report, “If
Article 130 is liberally interpreted, no constitutional amendment
may be required for the purpose of setting up of cassation benches
in four regions and a Constitution Bench at Delhi. Action by the
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He added that the Law Commission, in its 229th Report, had also
suggested that a constitutional bench be set up at Delhi and four
cassation benches be set up in the Northern region at Delhi, the
Southern region at Chennai/Hyderabad, the Eastern region at
Kolkata and the Western region at Mumbai. However, the Chief
Justice of India informed that after the full court considered the
matter in its meeting held on February 18, 2010 “found no
justification for setting of Benches of the Supreme Court outside
Delhi”
There is a Writ Petition No. 36 of 2016 filed in the Supreme Court
of India on the subject of establishment of National Court of
Appeal and the matter is sub-judice in the court,”
But that was not the view of all his successor CJIs. CJI T.S.Thakur was
certainly receptive to the proposal, and even tried to find a judicial
solution to it when he referred my petition seeking setting up of a
National Court of Appeal to a Constitution bench.
The relative success of virtual hearings by the courts at all levels during
the pandemic has made many to suggest that hybrid hearings (a
combination of virtual as well as physical hearings) could well be an
answer to the demand for establishing regional benches of the Supreme
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Under Section 153 -B of the Code of Civil Procedure, the place of trial
should be deemed to be open court. To reproduce Section 153-B in full:
The place in which any Civil Court is held for the purpose of trying any
suit shall be deemed to be an open court, to which the public generally
may have access so far as the same can conveniently contain them:
Provided that the presiding Judge may, if he thinks fit, Order at any
stage of any inquiry into or trial of any particular case, that the public
generally or any particular person, shall not have access to, or be or
remain in, the room or building used by Court.
PRAYER
The court may pass any order which the Hon’ble court deems fit in
light of justice
equity and good conscience.
All of which is most humbly prayed.
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Counsel for Respondent