-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The justice delivery system is taking a beating as the Centre and the Supreme Court slug it out over norms for appointment of judges. Andhra leads with 62% vacancy among the 10 high courts with most number of vacant judicial posts. The approved strength of the country's 24 high courts stands at 1,079, of which 464 posts or 43% are vacant. According to the law ministry,...
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SC recipe for 'fake encounters' is harsh, ranges from probe to death penalty for cops -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu New Delhi: As videos of the alleged police encounter of eight SIMI men who broke out of the Bhopal Central Jail continue to raise demands for a judicial probe, a series of Supreme Court judgments show that the law is heavily, even fatally, loaded against police officers found guilty of 'fake encounters'. One of the judgments even recommends death penalty to “trigger-happy” cops and compares them to Nazi war criminals...
More »Flavia Agnes, a prominent legal scholar and director of the Majlis Legal Centre, interviewed by Shishir Tripathi (Firstpost)
-FirstPost.com The issue of triple talaq has once again ignited the age-old debate on the desirability of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India. The Law Commission of India sought the views of people on the implementation of UCC. It put out a questionnaire on 7 October, which faced stiff opposition from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and some legal experts as it was alleged that it focuses...
More »No abnormal increase in High Court vacancies: Centre
-PTI New Delhi: The average annual rate of appointment of judges in the High Courts has not declined during the last two years, though no new appointments were made during April-December 2015 due to hearing of the NJAC matter, government sources said. Rapped by the Supreme Court for delaying judicial appointments, the government has said that it has increased the sanctioned strength of High Court judges from 906 to 1,079 and insisted...
More »SC slams Centre for delay in recruitment of judges -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for dragging its feet on the appointment of high court judges, accusing the government of trying to shut down the judiciary. So far, the Centre has cleared only 18 of 77 names recommended by the Collegium for posts of high court judges. With the apex court threatening to summon PMO secretary over this delay, the Centre sought time to...
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