Aadhaar case: Bar is wondering how the CJI Misra will beat the deadline

The CJI will have to race against time as he has only three months before retiring on October 2

Chief Justice Dipak Misra has just concluded a four-month-long hearing in the Aadhaar case, considered the second lengthiest one in the history of the Supreme Court. Though he has kept nine more weighty Constitutional matters for consideration before retirement, the court is off from Friday on an enviable summer vacation. This has left two-feet high bundles of petitions cluttering his courtroom, hardly leaving space for movement. When the judges return from cooler climes in July, the CJI bench has to take up contentious subjects like LGBT rights, whether charge-sheeted lawmakers must be disqualified and religious rights of Hindu and Parsi