India, Sept. 8 -- The Supreme Court's prescription for judicial delay has run into an uncomfortable question of its own. It took a bench in the top court more than two years to pronounce a judgment it had reserved on May 15, 2024, even as the same court, just three months ago, prescribed three months as the outer limit for the other constitutional courts to deliver reserved judgments.

A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Monday refused to quash a CBI corruption and cheating case against pharmaceutical major Sanofi India Limited over alleged irregularities in the purchase of medicines by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mysuru, involving an alleged loss of Rs.3.53 lakh to the government.

In its 99-page judgment,...