Share This - x The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of guidelines regarding the appointment of ad-hoc judges in High Courts under Article 224A of the Constitution. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Surya Kant passed the judgment in the case Lok Prahari vs Union of India. Lok Prahari, an NGO, had approached the Top Court through a PIL filed under Article 32 seeking the invocation of Article 224A to tackle the problem of mounting case arrears in High Courts. CJI SA Bobde said that the bench has passed a 64-paragraph judgment, broadly accepting the discussions held during the hearing. The CJI did not read out the guidelines and said that the judgment will be released soon during the course of the day.