NEW DELHI: Pre-empting a proposal by the Centre to carry an all-India examination to fill 23% vacancy in posts of trial court docket judges, the Supreme Court on Monday initiated an action plan for quick recruitment of judicial officers and gave one week to all high courts to publish details of the recruitment process and the time had to fill vacancies.
On the day TOI reported in regards to the Centre’s proposal, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul took suo motu initiative to expedite filling up of 5,133 vacant posts, out of a total of 22,036 judicial officers throughout India, whilst announcing “existence of vacancies to the extent indicated is wholly unacceptable”.
CJI Gogoi’s precedence to cut back pendency and lower down lengthen in dispensation of justice had found expression in his fresh video conference with chief justices and seniormost judges of HCs, when he had mentioned that judges should no longer take go away or attend seminars and executive purposes on running days.
Realising that trial courts, groaning below the weight of nearly 2.6 crore instances, wanted manpower and infrastructure urgently, the CJI-led bench directed HCs and state governments to furnish detailed knowledge by October 31 in regards to the standing of recruitment process initiated for recruitment of various classes of judicial officers and the timeline inside of which it was once anticipated to be completed.
The SC additionally requested HCs and states to indicate “whether the time anticipated to be taken to complete the ongoing process/processes may also be shortened and the process/processes completed before the time time table spelt out (by the SC) in Malik Mazhar Sultan case”.
Importantly, the apex court docket requested whether the infrastructure and manpower to be had in numerous states was once adequate if “the entire posts which can be borne within the cadre are to be crammed up”. This method, the SC is looking HCs and state governments to give a projection in regards to the further manpower and infrastructure required to tackle the huge pendency.
Posting the matter for hearing on November 1, the bench appointed four amici curiae — senior advocates Shyam Divan, Ok V Vishwanathan, Vijay Hansaria and suggest Gaurav Agrawal — to assit the court docket. Divan will care for Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and north-eastern states; Vishwanathan will lend a hand the court docket in matters in relation to Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, J&Ok, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Kerala;
Hansaria will care for Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana and Agrawal will glance into the recruitment means of Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura and Uttarakhand.
The SC had made repeated attempts within the final decade to streamline recruitment of judicial officers and had issued a series of directions every now and then in Malik Mazhar Sultan case, but it surely seldom translated into action on the flooring degree. The trial courts continued to remain both short-staffed, including massive number of vacancies in judicial officers’ posts.
On the day TOI reported in regards to the Centre’s proposal, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul took suo motu initiative to expedite filling up of 5,133 vacant posts, out of a total of 22,036 judicial officers throughout India, whilst announcing “existence of vacancies to the extent indicated is wholly unacceptable”.
CJI Gogoi’s precedence to cut back pendency and lower down lengthen in dispensation of justice had found expression in his fresh video conference with chief justices and seniormost judges of HCs, when he had mentioned that judges should no longer take go away or attend seminars and executive purposes on running days.
Realising that trial courts, groaning below the weight of nearly 2.6 crore instances, wanted manpower and infrastructure urgently, the CJI-led bench directed HCs and state governments to furnish detailed knowledge by October 31 in regards to the standing of recruitment process initiated for recruitment of various classes of judicial officers and the timeline inside of which it was once anticipated to be completed.
The SC additionally requested HCs and states to indicate “whether the time anticipated to be taken to complete the ongoing process/processes may also be shortened and the process/processes completed before the time time table spelt out (by the SC) in Malik Mazhar Sultan case”.
Importantly, the apex court docket requested whether the infrastructure and manpower to be had in numerous states was once adequate if “the entire posts which can be borne within the cadre are to be crammed up”. This method, the SC is looking HCs and state governments to give a projection in regards to the further manpower and infrastructure required to tackle the huge pendency.
Posting the matter for hearing on November 1, the bench appointed four amici curiae — senior advocates Shyam Divan, Ok V Vishwanathan, Vijay Hansaria and suggest Gaurav Agrawal — to assit the court docket. Divan will care for Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and north-eastern states; Vishwanathan will lend a hand the court docket in matters in relation to Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, J&Ok, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Kerala;
Hansaria will care for Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana and Agrawal will glance into the recruitment means of Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura and Uttarakhand.
The SC had made repeated attempts within the final decade to streamline recruitment of judicial officers and had issued a series of directions every now and then in Malik Mazhar Sultan case, but it surely seldom translated into action on the flooring degree. The trial courts continued to remain both short-staffed, including massive number of vacancies in judicial officers’ posts.
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