In 2025, the Supreme Court crossed a numerical milestone as over 1,400 judgments were delivered in a single year. Yet amid this volume, another, less discussed trend has quietly taken shape — the extraordinary and widening variation in the length of its judgments.
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At one end sits Justice JB Pardiwala’s April judgment in the Tamil Nadu Governor case, a sprawling 415-page ruling that laid down strict timelines for governors and the president to act on state legislation and introduced the
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