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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking uniform age of retirement for judges of the High Court and the Supreme Court.
A bench comprising
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian allowed the petitioner to withdraw the petition. The bench said that the petitioner may approach the Union Government or the Law Commission of India with a representation in this regard. You want judiciary to enhance its own age of retirement? What is this? , CJI Bobde asked the petitioner Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay.
Ashwini Upadhyay argued that the different age of retirements of HC judges and SC judges - 62 years for the former and 65 years for the latter - was irrational as both the Courts are Constitutional Courts.
The top court had last year directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitisers and other essential goods in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
SC judges to get jab today, no choice between vaccines
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Updated: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 17:21 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 02: The sitting and former judges of the Supreme Court and their family members will get the COVID-19 vaccine shots starting today. This comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his first dose of Covaxin at AIIMS.
This comes at a time when the Supreme Court is planning on resuming physical hearing in the courts. The Chief Justice of India made it clear that the judges of Supreme Court themselves are willing to restart the open court hearings but there are medical and technical issues which the registry of Supreme Court of India is trying to sort out and solve. Therefore, it will be done gradually, the Bar Council of India said in a press release.