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2020 Supreme(SC) 179

ARUN MISHRA, VINEET SARAN, S.RAVINDRA BHAT
Dheeraj Mor – Appellant
Versus
Hon’ble High Court of Delhi – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the parties :Santosh Kumar, Dushyant, Sanket, Deepak Anand, Bharat Singh, Rashmi Malhotra, Prerna Kumari, M. K. Maroria, B. V. Balram Das, Aishwarya Kumar, P. V. Surendranath, Resmitha R. Chandran, Lekha Sudhakaran, Sawan Kumar Shukla, Biju Joseph, A. Mariarputham, Anan D. N. Rao, Annam Venkaesh Rao, Ananya Khandelwal, Venkatesh Rao, Rahul Mishra, Sangeeta M.R., Avni Sharma, D. K. Sharma, Rohit Vats, Sunita Sharma, Adarsh Upadhyay, Pravin H. Parekh, Kshatrshal Raj, Tanya Chaudhary, Pratyusha Priyadarshini, Nitika Pandey, Nikhil Ramdev, For M/s. Parekh & Co. Priya Hingorani, Vivek Singh, Shekhar Naphade, Ashwani Kumar Dubey, Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, Shashank Shekhar, Pankaj Sharma, Prashant Kumar Umrao, Sandeep Kr. Mishra, Sheetal Rajput, Chandra Shekhar Mishra, Adv Ashihsh Chaubey, S. Lakshmi Iyer, Aishwarya Dash, D.K. Devesh, U.P.Singh, Abhinav Raghuvanshi, Suprabh Kumar Roshan, A.B.Singh, Piyush Upadhyay, Kunal Chatterji, Maitrayee Banerjee, Mr Pravar Veer Misra, Dr. K. P. Kylasanatha Pillay, Pradeep C., A. Venayagam Balan, V. S. Lakshmi, Zartab Anwar, Anjana Prakash, P. Prabhakar, D. Srinivas, A. Venkateswara Rao, Aljo K. Joseph, Shelna K., Siddhartha Jha, Deepak Goel, Ajit Kr. Sinha, S.Janani, Deepak Goel, Kamal Kumar Pandey, Vipin Kumar, Jitendra Kr. Yadav, Anurag Singh, Kshatrshal Raj, Tanya Chaudhary, Nikita Pandey, for M/s. Parekh & Co. P. N. Ravindran, T.G.N. Nair, Amit Sharma, Purushaindra Kaurav, Arjun Garg, . S. Mahesh Sahasranaman, Anuradha Mishra, Stuti Krishna, A.V.Rangam, Buddy A. Ranganadhan, Jamshed Bey, Himanshu Mehra, Amit Singh Chauhan, Ekansh Bansal, Mrs. Bandna Singh, Vaishali Gupta, Brinda Ajmani, Ajay Kumar Talesara, Ajay Kumar Singh, Yatharth Singh, Raunak Jain, Ketan Paul, Tushar Bhushan, Amartya Bhushan, Tushar Bakshi, Shovit Singh, Harshika Verma, Akshay Chadha, Dhruv Sheron, A. P. Mayee, A. Rajarajan, Sanjeev Kumar Choudhary, Charudatta Mahindrakar, Deepanwita Priyanka, A. Rajarajan, Himanshu Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Seeta Ram Sharma, Ram Niwas Sharma, Archana Pathak Dave, Manoj Goel, A. Kumar, Wajeeh Shafiq, Harish Pandey, Yunus Malik, Anish Maheshwari, Saroj Bala, Aman Malik, Samir Malik, Ashish Kumar, AAG. Sangeeta Bharti, Shakti Verma, Rohit K. Singh, Dushyant Kumar, T. V. George, Govind Narayan Kaushik, Neha Dutt Sharma, Nishe Rajen Shonker, V. Sushant, Ram Naresh Yadav, Apoorv Kurup, Upama Bhatacharjee, Vijay Pratap Singh, Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Akhileshwar Jha, Manoj Shrivastava, Rakesh Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Archana Mishra, Sunil Fernandes, AAG, MP Nupur Kumar, Zeeshan Diwan, Prastut Dalvi, Rahul Kaushik, K. Parameshwar, M. V. Mukunda, G. Prakash, Jishnu M. L., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Mrs. Beena Prakash, Uttara Babbar, Bhavana Duhoon, Manan Bansal, Amol B. Karande, Ravindra H., Rahul Chitnis, Aaditya A. Pande, Sachin Patil, Nidhi, Vaisal Dathan, Rameshwar Singh Malik, Jitesh Malik, Beena, Mrs. Shipra Chaudhary, Satish Kumar, Arjun Garg, Devansh Srivastava, Rati Tandon, Parnam Prabhakar, D. Srinivas, Sanjeev Kumar, Anjana Prakash, Prabhakar Parnam, Aditi, A. V. Rao, Anurag Dubey, Chhaya Kumari, Bhupendra Kr. Bhardwaj, S. R. Setia, Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, Abdul Qadir, Aditi Gupta, Ankur Chhiber, R.C.Kaushik, Yashvardhan, Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Saksham Maheshwari, Alok Kumar, Sadashiv, Shantanu Kumar, Shakti Vardhan, Ajay Kr. Talesara, Himanshu Mehra, Vaishali Gupta, Abhishek Atrey, Vidyottma, Arvind Gupta, Sameer Kumar Tiwary, Mahesh Chaurasia, Sujit Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, Anil Kumar Sahu, Rakesh Kumar, Ajay Kumar Singh, Satyendra Kumar Srivastav, Vinay Kumar, Ramesh Tiwari, Ajay Bansal, Sanjay Kr. Visen, Mrs. Veena Bansal, Gaurav Yadava, Smarhar Singh, Ashutosh Thakur, Rajesh Kumar, Animesh Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Ashutosh Thakur, M. Kumar, Nishant Kumar, Ambuj Dixit, Ekta Bharti, Neeraj Shekhar, Yunus Malik, Anish Maheshwari, Saroj Bala, Khushali, MNA Chaudhary, Aman Malik, Samir Malik, G.N.Reddy, T. Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, Digvijay Harichandan, Manohar Lal, Dinesh Verma, Subhasish Bhowmick, Debjani Das P., Rajiv Kataria, For M/s. Delhi Law Chambers. Shekhar G Devasa, Manish Tiwari, Luv Kumar, for For M/s. Devasa & Co. M.C.Dhingra, Anurag Shukla, Gaurav Dhingra, Kandra Indira, Abhishek, Deepthi Raj, Abhilash M.R., Sayooj Mohandas, Nishe Rajen Shonkar, Niraj Gupta, Anshu Gupta, Gaurav Kumar, Rachana Srivastava, Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Krishna Kant Dubey, Jainendra Kumar Ojha, Rakesh Kumar Tewari, Pankaj Kr. Singh, Suchi Singh, Sanjay Kr. Yadav, Ashok Kumar, Devvrat, Rishabh Sancheti, Padma Priya, Bhavesh Seth, Suyash Rawat, Anchit Bhandari, for K. Paarivendhan, Amitanand Tiwari, Ashutosh Jha, Ashutosh Gupta, Baij Nath Patel, Sweta, Romila, Sunil K. Jain, Anubha Agarwal, Anuj Prakash, Panshul Chandra, Aditi Kumar, K. Murli Manohar, Akhilesh Tripathy, Pooja, Ravi S.Jha, D.K.Tripathi, Shailesh Madiyal, Kartik Anand, Sudhanshu Prakash, Prashant Bhushan, Ashutosh Jha, Petitioner-in-person Gaurav, Amol B. Karande, R. C. Kaushik, Deepak Goel, Samir Malik, Ravindra S. Garia, A. Venayagam Balan, Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Deepak Anand, Daya Krishan Sharma, Aljo K. Joseph, Pranab Prakash, Abhishek, Subhasish Bhowmick, Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Neeraj Shekhar, Harish Pandey, Ajay Pal, Shuchi Singh, Arvind Gupta, Nishe Rajen Shonker, Niraj Gupta, Pankaj Kumar Mishra, M/S. Devasa & Co., M/S. Delhi Law Chambers, A. V. Rangam, Rakesh Kumar-I, Ram Naresh Yadav, Vivek Singh, Ajay Kumar Talesara, Ajay Kumar Singh, Archana Pathak Dave, Amit K. Nain, D. K. Devesh, Satish Kumar, S. R. Setia, Dr. Surender Singh Hooda, Sanjeev Kumar, Ashwani Kumar Dubey, Devvrat, Kedar Nath Tripathy, Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, Ram Kishor Singh Yadav, Aniruddha P. Mayee, Abhisth Kumar, Arjun Garg, Kunal Chatterji, V. N. Raghupathy, Christi Jain, M/S. Parekh & Co., Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Ashok Mathur, Uttara Babbar, Annam D. N. Rao, T. G. Narayanan Nair, Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, Abhishek Atrey, Rohit K. Singh, Gaurav Agrawal, Sunny Choudhary, Hemantika Wahi, Sunil Kumar Jain, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Rachana Srivastava, Adarsh Upadhyay, B. V. Balaram Das, Arvind Kumar Sharma, K.parameshwar, G. N. Reddy, Guntur Prabhakar, John Mathew, Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Vivek Singh, A. Venayagam Balan, Mrigank Prabhakar, D. K. Devesh, K. Paari Vendhan, S. Janani, Resmitha R. Chandran, Krishna Kumar Singh, Prashant Bhushan, Archana Pathak Dave, Smarhar Singh, M. C. Dhingra, Deepak Goel, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

ARUN MISHRA, J.

1. A Division Bench of this Court has referred the matters. The question involved in the matters is the interpretation of Article 233 of the Constitution of India as to the eligibility of members of the subordinate judicial service for appointment as District Judge as against the quota reserved for the Bar by way of direct recruitment. The petitioners who are in judicial service, have claimed that in case before joining judicial service a candidate has completed 7 years of practice as an advocate, he/she shall be eligible to stake claim as against the direct recruitment quota from the Bar notwithstanding that on the date of application/appointment, he or she is in judicial service of the Union or State. Yet another category is that of the persons having completed only 7 years of service as judicial service. They contend that experience as a judge be treated at par with the Bar service, and they should be permitted to stake their claim. The third category is hybrid, consisting of candidates who have completed 7 years' by combining the experience serving as a judicial officer and as advocate. They claim to be eligible to stake their claim against the above qu


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