Justice Rao wrote Judgments on a wide range of subjects in his 6 year SC tenure, notably on reservations, tribunal reforms and COVID relief.

Examining institution, disposal, and pendency during the COVID-19 years and the decline in the SC’s efficiency.

The Court engaged extensively with data for reservations, the rights of money laundering suspects, and the limits of legislative privileges.

Apart from 2017, the total number of pending cases at the SC increased every year from January to December.

Pendency of cases at the SC has increased in 2021 by 7.3%. Currently 69,555 cases are pending.

Nageswar Rao J stated that states cannot let long drawn out bureaucratic processes come in the way of providing basic amenities to children.

The Court ordered all States and UTs to file reports on the status of children in street situations in two weeks.

The second wave of the pandemic has had a significant effect on the number of reported judgments delivered.

Over the first half of the year, pendency at the admission stage increased and reduced at the regular stage.

The second wave of the pandemic has resulted in a rapid rise in the pendency of cases at the Supreme Court.

DESK BRIEF: Looking back at the Court's work in the first half of 2021, dominated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Court quashed an FIR filed against journalist Vinod Dua and held that there was no incitement to violence and hence it was not sedition.