Hyderabad, May 17 -- The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Saturday, May 17, honoured the new Chief Justice of India(CJI), Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, at a grand ceremony held at The Lalit, New Delhi.

The event was attended by Supreme Court and High Court judges, senior advocates, bar leaders, and prominent legal figures from across the country.

Addressing the judiciary's pressing challenge of case backlogs, CJI Gavai called for a cooperative effort between the judiciary and the executive to swiftly fill vacancies. He said, "I would request the learned Solicitor to convey our request to the executive that, by a cooperative rule cooperative approach, we must ensure to minimize the vacancies as much as, as strictly as we can so that to some ext...