Opinion: 'Behind every Supreme Court petition is a waiting game'

In the aftermath of the nationwide protests and the police action in Delhi on 20 July, several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court for enforcing fundamental rights against the State. These range from Junaid Malik’s plea for wrongful detainment to Manoj Kumar Jha’s petition seeking FIRs against police excesses and a Gurugram protester’s plea over her pellet-gun injuries. Filing a petition in the Supreme Court is, however, only half the battle. Whether your petition gets a hearing depends on several moving parts: how quickly the registry processes defects in the case, whether a ‘mentioning’ succeeds, how urgently you push to cure those defects and ultimately, whether the Court’s docket has room for you. Data shows that the Supreme Court is relatively quicker to hear cases initiated by private petitioners than the state. Watch Gokul K Sunoj, Founding Lawyer at The Professeer, explain.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/counting-on-law/behind-every-supreme-court-petition-is-a-waiting-game/3003933/