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Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Uniform Retirement Age For Supreme Court And High Court Judges
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It s irrational to have different retirement age for judges of constitutional courts, says a plea filed by BJP leader and Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay before the Supreme Court seeking uniform retirement age for judges of the High Courts as well as the Top Court.
In essence, the plea seeks that the retirement age of High Court Judges be raised to 65 years, from 62 years.
The Petitioner states that under the present system, High Court judges are forced to retire at the age of 62. On one hand, this system causes the bench to lose tremendous legal experience and on the other hand, pendency of cases before the High Courts keep increasing.
Photograph by Prashant Panjiar outlookindia.com 2021-02-19T14:32:27+05:30
Over the past decade, the Indian judiciary has ushered in an era of significant digitisation under the flagship E-courts Mission Mode Project (e-courts project), a cog in the Indian government’s larger wheel of e-governance. The e-courts project has been pivotal in augmenting institutional efficiency within the judiciary through the integration of information and communication technologies. Under this project, a majority of Indian courts today have access to basic and advanced computing hardware. Additionally, many new software programmes have been designed by the National Informatics Centre to bring online the judiciary’s significant chunk of diurnal administrative work. As a result, litigants and lawyers have ready and almost immediate access to court orders and judgments, real time updates of case status, e-filing facilities and numerous other amenities, easing and improving