Can't micro-manage every issue to run the nation: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that it cannot run the country by micromanaging every issue, which in turn, can render the apex court "dysfunctional".

- Utkarsh Anand

The two most senior judges of the court, Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, flagged their concerns while hearing public interest litigation (PIL) matters, listed separately before their benches.

While the CJI-led bench was hearing a PIL relating to nationwide norms for captive elephants, justice Kaul was dealing with a 1985 PIL on environmental pollution. Noticing a deluge of applications, interventions and tagged petitions in the matter relating to captive elephants, justice Chandrachud remarked that there may be a thousand issues in the country that merit attention, but the top court cannot render itself dysfunctional by hearing everything.