CJI Surya Kant drew up a special Supreme Court roster last month, constituting four benches to exclusively hear the oldest pending cases on certain days of the week. According to reports, there are currently over 96,000 cases pending before the Supreme Court, the oldest of which dates back to 1986. While the concern in such cases is often directed towards litigants, counsels say for them the battle is against fading memory, loss of evidence, deaths of those involved...