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In a significant ruling, a seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday said no timeframe could be fixed for completion of trial in a criminal case and termed as 'not good law' earlier verdicts of the Court specifying timeframe for winding up of trials.
This unanimous verdict was delivered by the bench comprising Chief Justice S P Bharucha, Justice S S M Quadri, Justice R C Lahoti, Justice N Santosh Hegde, Justice Doraiswamy Raju, Justice Ruma Pal and Justice Arijit Pasayat.
This will have a telling impact on the nearly 13 million criminal cases pending in the trial courts across the country.
There are just over 12,000 trial court judges.
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