At 3:20 a.m. on July 30, 2015, the Supreme Court sat in Court Room 4 to hear the last plea of Yakub Memon, who was to be hanged that morning. “The Supreme Court has never before been opened in the wee hours for a hearing,” PTI reported. The hearing ended at about 4:50 a.m.
On May 17, 2018, at 2:11 a.m., three judges began to hear a challenge to the swearing-in of B.S. Yeddyurappa as Chief Minister of Karnataka. They sat for nearly three and a half hours.