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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court faces a crisis of sorts as its present judge strength has depleted below the numbers sanctioned more than a decade ago and the situation could worsen in future with no urgent steps being taken by the five-member Collegium led by Chief Justice S A Bobde to fill the vacancies. The sanctioned strength of SC Judges was increased from 26 to 31, including the CJI, in 2009, but its present strength is 30 Judges. With five more retirements - Justice Indu Malhotra (March 13), CJI Bobde (April 23), Justices Ashok Bhushan (July 4), R F Nariman (August 12) and Navin Sinha (August 18) - scheduled in the next six months, the strength could deplete below 1988 level, when it was increased from 18 to 26. The number of SC judges was increased from 31 to 34 in 2019. ....
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court faces a crisis of sorts as its present judge strength has depleted below the numbers sanctioned more than a decade ago and the situation could worsen in future with no urgent steps being taken by the five-member Collegium led by Chief Justice S A Bobde to fill the vacancies. The sanctioned strength of SC Judges was increased from 26 to 31, including the CJI, in 2009, but its present strength is 30 Judges. With five more retirements - Justice Indu Malhotra (March 13), CJI Bobde (April 23), Justices Ashok Bhushan (July 4), R F Nariman (August 12) and Navin Sinha (August 18) - scheduled in the next six months, the strength could deplete below 1988 level, when it was increased from 18 to 26. The number of SC judges was increased from 31 to 34 in 2019. ....
A work-charged employee retired 22 years ago but is yet to receive the benefit The Orissa High Court has ordered that the salary of Odisha Finance and Law Secretaries be withheld if the pension of a person, who retired from service 22 years ago, is not regularised by next week. A division bench comprising Justice S. Panda and Justice S.K. Panigrahi took the stringent view after noting that the pension had not been regularised despite the HC order to do so a year ago. Mithuram Bhoi (80), who was a work-charged employee in the Hirakud Dam Project, had retired on June 30, 1998. As he was not paid the pension benefit, he had moved the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) to get his dues. The SAT had ordered payment of basic minimum pension after regularising his service in 2015. ....