SC constitutes ‘case categorisation advisory Committee’ headed by Justice PS Narasimha

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New Delhi, Jan 14: To review the current framework relating to the categorization of judicial proceedings according to topic categories, the Supreme Court on Friday established a 6-member ‘Case Categorization Advisory Committee’ under the direction of Justice PS Narasimha.

Sunil Chauhan, additional registrar of the Supreme Court, will be the committee’s secretary.

Senior Attorney Aruneshwar Gupta, attorneys-on-record K Parameshwar, Gaurav Agrawal, and Vanshaja Shukla are the other members of the committee.

The broad mandate of the committee is as follows:

1. Examine the existing framework of subject categories and sub-categories;
2. Suggest changes and suggest a scheme for categorisation of matters;
3. Identify overlapping subject categories/ sub-categories;
4. Identify and suggest renaming/ merging existing subject categories and/ or sub-categories;
5. Identify those subject categories/ sub-categories which have become redundant;
6. Propose addition of new subject categories/ sub-categories;
7. Suggest mechanism to map existing categories with proposed change in subject category/ sub-category.

The committee shall submit its report in a month.

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