(1) Judges work only for 180 days in the Supreme Court and 210 days in the High Courts.
(2) The pendency of cases is mounting and, needless to say, the dilatory tactics and leisurely disposal of cases aggregate the arrears.
(3) Some judges are ready to grant easy adjournments where another hour or two would have been sufficient to decide the case.
(4) How does one expect the executive, which is directed to dispose of representations within a prescribed timeframe, to do so, when judges themselves do not work within the time?

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Solution

The correct option is D FJJJ
Statement (1) is a verifiable fact that the judges only work the limited number of days per year. Hence it is a fact. Statement (2) throws up some ambiguity in which the pendency of cases need not be sorely because if leisurely disposal. Several other characteristics can be a factor, Hence it is a judgement. Statement (3) also makes an assumption that some judges are partial to granting more adjournments. This is a judgment. Statement (4) starts off by a question to the author which also comes under Judgment.
Hence option (4) is the answer.

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