Supreme Court gives life to Art 224A to bring back retired judges | India News
Clarifying that appointment of ad hoc judges would not be against vacancies in the sanctioned strength of judges in an HC, a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices S K Kaul and Surya Kant took the historic step to chart out structured implementation of Article 224A. NEW DELHI: Activating Article 224A of the Constitution that had been dormant for 58 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed high court chief justices to start appointing retired HC judges as ad hoc judges for two to five years if the HC faced pendency of a large number of cases. Clarifying that appointment of ad hoc j...
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