Cji retirement age

India has a single judicial system. Indian judicial system has observed many changes since independence, digitalization has been on a full spree and that has helped in the efficient delivery of justice. This is reflected in the current structure of the judicial system of India. One more proposal is there, which is to increase the retirement age of the Hon’ble Judges of Supreme Court & High Courts from 65 to 68 years and from 62 to 65 years respectively. The proposal has been put forth to avoid the post-retirement openings and less criticism. Rishabh Raj Advocate, Supreme Court of India says that the Ministry was responding to the recommendation of a Parliamentary Standing Committee that when we increase the age of judges would help retain the existing judges, which in turn would help in reducing both vacancy and pendency of cases in the short run. Rishabh Raj Advocate, Supreme Court of India One more attribute of the committee was the life expectancy, which has increased in the past. When we speak about the Indian judicial system, it is the invisible power, and it lies in the non-constitutional feudalism and parliamentary outlook. The Venkatachaliah Report (Report of the National Commission to review the working of the Constitution, 2002) recommended that the retirement age of the Judges of the High Court should be increased to 65 years and that of the Judges of the Supreme Court should be increased to 68 years. The age should be unanimous in both the Higher and Lower Cour...

June 22, 2019: To tackle the huge backlog of over 43 lakh cases in the Supreme Court and high courts, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, in two letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has requested top priority for passage of two constitutional amendments - suitable increase in the strength of SC judges which currently stands at 31 and raising the retirement age of HC judges from 62 to 65 years. A third letter from the CJI to the PM sought revival of an old tradition of tenure appointments of retired SC and HC judges, under Articles 128 and 224A of the Constitution respectively, so they can be assigned cases pending for years. The SC, which attained its full strength of 31 judges only recently after more than a decade, had a pendency of 58,669 cases and the number was rising due to a higher rate of filing of fresh cases, the CJI said. His letter said there were 26 cases pending for 25 years, 100 cases for 20 years, 593 cases for 15 years and 4,977 cases for 10 years. He said inadequate judge strength prevented the CJI from constituting the required number of five-judge constitution benches to adjudicate cases involving substantial questions of law or interpretation of constitutional provisions. "You would recall that way back in 1988, about three decades ago, the judge strength of the SC was increased from 18 to 26, and then again after two decades in 2009, it was increased to 31, including the CJI, to expedite disposal of cases to keep pace with the rate of institution...

Justice Kamal Narain Singh, who was the CJI between November 25, 1991 and December 12, 1991, had a tenure of 18 days. Justice S Rajendra Babu had a tenure of 30 days as the chief justice of India between May 2, 2004 and May 31, 2004. Justice J C Shah had a tenure of 36 days when he was the CJI between December 17, 1970 and January 21, 1971. Justice G B Patnaik had a 41-day tenure as the head of the Indian judiciary when he held the office of the CJI from November 8, 2002 to December 18, 2002. Justice L M Sharma had a tenure of 86 days as the CJI when he was in office between November 18, 1992 and February 11, 1993. Lalit intends to work on three key areas, including listing of cases and mentioning of urgent matters in the Supreme Court, during his 74-day tenure as the head of the judiciary. WATCH HERE: Justice Lalit, who became the second CJI to be directly elevated to the apex court bench from the Bar, had on Friday highlighted the three areas, saying he would strive hard to ensure that at least one Constitution bench was functioning in the top court throughout the year. Justice S M Sikri, who became the 13th CJI in January 1971, was the first lawyer to be elevated directly to the top court bench in March 1964. Justice Lalit will have a brief tenure of less than three months as the CJI, and he would retire on November 8. The retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court is 65. While speaking at a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Friday to ...

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged the prime minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court judges and high court judges under Articles 128 and 224A of the Constitution respectively to clear the backlog of cases pending for years. The CJI, who wrote three letters to the PM, said there was pendency of 58,669 cases in the top court and the number was increasing due to the filing of more fresh cases. Due to paucity of judges, the required number of Constitution benches to decide important cases involving questions of law were not being formed, the CJI said. "You would recall that way back in 1988, about three decades ago, the judge strength of the SC was increased from 18 to 26, and then again after two decades in 2009, it was increased to 31, including the CJI, to expedite disposal of cases to keep pace with the rate of institution," he wrote. "I request you to kindly consider, on top priority, to augment the judge-strength in the SC appropriately so that it can function more efficiently and effectively as it will go a long way to attain the ultimate goal of rendering timely justice to the litigant public," Gogoi wrote. He said that though the size of the feeder cadre of chief justice and judges of the high courts has increased in the past yet the strength has not been increased prop...