The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice on Wednesday presented the 144th Report outlining the response of the Union Law Ministry to the recommendations.
The Committee wished not to pursue its earlier recommendations on the possibility of increasing retirement age of High Court and Supreme Court judges and filling vacancies in the higher judiciary.
An apex court bench headed by Justice Kaul had in September 2023 dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a mandatory cooling-off period of two years for the retired judges before they accept such assignments. The bench had said it is not for the apex court to either stop a retired judge from accepting a post-retirement offer or to direct Parliament to frame a specific law to that effect.