Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 20: In a rarest of the rare case senior most Sub-Judges/CJMs have challenged the selection of nine direct District and Sessions Judges on the various grounds.
The petition challenging the selection of nine direct District and Sessions Judges has been filed by Virender Singh Bhau (presently posted as Special Municipal Mobile Magistrate) and 16 others Sub-Judges/CJMs. In the petition, it has been submitted that the petitioners’ service career and prospects are likely to be pre-judicially affected in case as many as 13 posts of District and Sessions Judges are filled-up by the direct recruitment method at the cost of right of the in-service officers for promotion earned by the length of their service under the State Judiciary.
The petitioners, who were to be the immediate affected persons preferred a written representation to the Registrar General, requesting for modification or alteration of the notification dated August 1, 2011, but the representation made by the petitioners has still not been decided.
After hearing Advocate Pranav Kohli appearing for the petitioners, Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar issued notice to the State High Court through Registrar General, Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and nine selected District and Sessions Judges.
The High Court disposed of CMA with the order “it is provided that appointment if any, made to Higher Judicial Service (District and Sessions Judges), the same shall be subject to outcome of the writ petition”.
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