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SC refuses to entertain plea to earmark up to 50% posts in judicial services for womenThe Supreme Court has declined a petition advocating for 50 percent of judicial service posts to be filled by women. The court advised agai...
HC collegiums yet to send recommendations for 201 judges' vacancies: GovtAccording to the law ministry's website, as on December 1, of the sanctioned strength of 1,114 judges for the 25 high courts, there were 32...
Govt yet to receive recommendations by HC collegiums for 216 vacancies of judges: Rijiju"Presently, there are a total of 118 proposals recommended by High Court Collegiums which are at various stages of processing. The recommen...
HC collegiums in breach of six-month advance timeline in sending names to fill anticipated vacancies: GovtAs on January 30, there were a total of 18 proposals on which a reconsideration of the Supreme Court collegium was sought. The top court co...
Issue of vacancies in higher judiciary will linger till new system put in place: Kiren RijijuGiving answers to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Rijiju said the total number of cases pending in various courts is about to tou...
No proposal at present to increase retirement age of HC judges: Govt in RSResponding to a question, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply that while every effort is made to fill up the existing ...
Government awaits recommendations for four vacancies in Supreme Court; three High Courts without their regular Chief JusticesOfficiating or acting chief justices are appointed in the absence of a chief justice to ensure that the day to day administration of the co...
CJI has sent proposal to increase retirement age of HC judges: Ravi Shankar PrasadThe minister, however, did not respond in either yes or no to a question on "whether the government is considering to raise the retirement ...
Judiciary-Executive showdown in Supreme Court over judges' appointmentThe strong remarks by the bench came after Venugopal said though the court was dealing with a matter relating to the vacancy of judges in t...
Lower courts short of 5k judges as no suitable candidatesThere are only 17,576 court rooms/court halls and only 14,363 residential units available for district and subordinate courts in the countr...
Supreme Court collegium clears record 51 names for HC judge postsNever before has the SC collegium recommended 51 names within a span of 10 days to the government though the pendency has been steadily mou...
India doesn't need 70,000 judges; just fill vacancies to cut backlogEveryone agrees that judicial pendency is a serious problem in India. Most of the suggested big-ticket reforms call for major changes in th...
Why the wheels of filling judicial vacancies are slowIn a 45-minute-long speech, in which his voice choked with emotion, Thakur blamed the central government for dragging its feet on the issue...
India has 17 judges for a million people, 5,000 posts vacantThe current sanctioned strength of the subordinate judiciary is 20,214 judges while that of the 24 high courts is 1,056 and the pendency of...
High Court vacancies hit 39% amid executive-judiciary face-offIt is not clear at this point whether these vacancies can now be filled through the collegium system or will have to wait till the system i...
Over 300 posts of judges in high courts vacantThe government's attempt to fill these vacancies has not borne fruit for a number of years for several reasons.