Court vacations and hearing dates: Supreme Court clarifies the ordinary listing rule
DEMO COVERAGE · Original AI-assisted summary of linked reporting, published to demonstrate this website. Source check: 19 October 2026.
The Supreme Court explains how High Court registries should ordinarily count a listing period that runs into a vacation.
Event and source dates: Order: 16 October 2026 · News report: 17 October 2026
What happened
The Supreme Court has clarified how High Court registries should ordinarily handle an instruction to list a case after two weeks when that period runs into a court vacation. The observations appear in Senior Intelligence Officer v. Mohammed Kamran, 2026 INSC 1140.
The rule in plain language
For cases of this kind, the registry should ordinarily leave out the vacation period when calculating the listing interval. There are exceptions: if the judge fixes a particular date during the vacation, or specifically directs a hearing before the Vacation Bench, the matter should be listed accordingly. The relevant High Court rules still apply.
What the Court decided in the case
The dispute arose from a bail hearing in Karnataka. The Court sent the petition back for fresh consideration while allowing interim bail on the earlier conditions until further orders. These listing observations are not a blanket change to filing deadlines.
Sources and further reading
Supreme Court order, 16 October 2026 (PDF hosted by LiveLaw)
LiveLaw report by Yash Mittal, 17 October 2026
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