Opening up the Collegium process to tackling pendency, the new Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, outlines his roadmap for his 15-month tenure that began November 24, in an interview to Ananthakrishnan G

For over 14 years, you served in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, and during that time, you passed several orders dealing with the drug menace in the state. How serious is the challenge and could you elaborate on the judicial intervention?

I was assigned that matter around 2015, when I was among the senior judges in the High Court. And until I was transferred as Chief Justice to the Himachal Pradesh High Court, I made it a point to list it regularly, at least once a month, so that we could continuously monitor the issue and work toward improving the situation.

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