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Why is it in news?
- The Supreme Court cautioned the States and the High Courts that it would resort to a “centralised selection mechanism”
- If they did not act promptly to fill the over 5,000 judicial posts lying vacant in the lower judiciary.
- A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the States and the High Courts were under its “constant gaze” on this issue.
- The court had in a judgment given a time frame of one year for completing the recruitment of additional district judges and nine months for civil judges, junior division.
- The remarks from the Bench, also comprising Justices U.U. Lalit and K.M. Joseph, came after it perused the records of various High Courts, which make the appointments to the subordinate judiciary for each State.
Source
The Hindu