{"id":216078,"date":"2019-06-25T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=216078"},"modified":"2019-06-25T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T04:02:15","slug":"cji-ranjan-gogoi-writes-to-pm-modi-seeking-increase-in-number-of-judges-in-sc-retirement-age-hc-judges-to-65-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/06\/25\/cji-ranjan-gogoi-writes-to-pm-modi-seeking-increase-in-number-of-judges-in-sc-retirement-age-hc-judges-to-65-years\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI Ranjan Gogoi writes to PM Modi : Seeking increase in &#8212; Number of Judges in SC &#038; Retirement age of HC Judges to 65 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As reported by PTI, Ranjan Gogoi, CJ has written to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi in respect to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Increase in the number of Supreme Court Judges, i.e. Increase in the strength<\/li>\n<li>Retirement Age of the High Court Judges to be 65 Years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These suggestions have been placed in regard to clearing of the backlog cases. Further stating that t<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>here is a pendency of 58,669 cases in the Supreme Court<\/strong><\/span> and the number was increasing due to the filing of more fresh cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;I request you to kindly consider, on top priority, to augment the judge-strength in the SC appropriately so that it can function more efficiently and effectively as it will go a long way to attain ultimate goal of rendering timely justice to the litigant public.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another suggestion was to increase the retirement age of the Judges from 62 to 65 years in the High Court&#8217;s, as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;One of the prime reasons why we are not able to contain the ever-growing pendency is shortage of HC judges. At present, 399 posts, or 37 per cent of sanctioned judge-strength, are vacant. The existing vacancies need to be filled immediately. However, despite best efforts put in by all stakeholders, it has not been possible to appoint judges to bring the working judge-strength anywhere close to the sanctioned judge-strength&#8221;.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;This, in turn, would help in improving the vacancy position and consequently reducing pendency of cases. 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