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SC on Ad hoc Judges
February 3 , 2025
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- The Supreme Court relaxed its earlier condition to appoint ad hoc judges in High Courts to clear the backlog of pending criminal cases.
- The SC bench ordered that “each High Court may appoint ad hoc judges by taking recourse to Article 224A for appointment of ad hoc judges between two to five in number but not exceeding 10 per cent of the sanctioned strength.”
- Article 224A deals with the appointment of the retired Judges at sittings of High Courts.
- The Chief Justice of a High Court for any State, may with the previous consent of the President, request any person who has held the office of a Judge of that Court or of any other High Court to sit and act as a Judge of the High Court for that State.
- Every such person so requested shall, while so sitting and acting, be entitled to such allowances as the President may by order determine.
- He also will have all the jurisdiction, powers, and the privileges of, but shall not otherwise be deemed to be, a Judge of that High Court.
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