New Delhi: The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended the Centre to appoint five retired judges as ad-hoc judges in the Allahabad high court for a two-year tenure as a temporary measure aimed to tackle the burgeoning pendency of cases.
The recommendation issued by the Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and the next two senior judges — justices Vikram Nath and JK Maheshwari — “approved the proposal” for appointment of retired judges justices Mohd Faiz Alam Khan, Mohd Aslam, Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi, Renu Agarwal, and Jyotsna Sharma.
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The recommendation has been made in terms of Article 224-A of the Constitution for a period of two years. In January last year, the SC allowed HCs to recommend retired high court judges to be appointed on ad-hoc basis, subject to the conditions that they will hear only criminal appeals. They were allowed to recommend only 2 to 5 ad hoc judges and in any case, not exceeding 10% of the sanctioned strength in that HC.
Under Article 224A of the Constitution of India, chief justices of HCs are entitled to request retired judges to again assume the office of a judge but the provision has been invoked only on three occasions in the past.
{{/usCountry}}Under Article 224A of the Constitution of India, chief justices of HCs are entitled to request retired judges to again assume the office of a judge but the provision has been invoked only on three occasions in the past.
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