The Supreme Court on Friday constituted a 6-member 'Case Categorisation Advisory Committee' headed by Justice PS Narasimha to revisit the existing framework relating to categorisation of judicial matters according to subject categories..Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court, Sunil Chauhan will serve as the secretary of the committee.The committee has Senior Advocate Aruneshwar Gupta and advocates-on-record K Parameshwar, Gaurav Agrawal and Vanshaja Shukla as its other members..The broad mandate of the committee is as follows:- Examine the existing framework of subject categories and sub-categories;- Suggest changes and suggest scheme for categorisation of matters;- Identify overlapping subject categories/ sub-categories;- Identify and suggest renaming/ merging existing subject categories and/ or sub-categories;- Identify those subject categories/ sub-categories which have become redundant;- Propose addition of new subject categories/ sub-categories; - Suggest mechanism to map existing categories with proposed change in subject category/ sub-category..The committee has to submit its report within a month.
