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2010 Supreme(SC) 1392

K. G. BALAKRISHNAN, DEEPAK VERMA, B. S. CHAUHAN
All India Judges Association – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. Vijay Hansaria, Ms. Sneha Kalita, Mr. A.T.M. Sampath, Mr. Ejaz Maqbool.
For the Respondents: Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Mr. Anish R. Shah, Ms. Mamta Saxena, Mr. A.N. Singh, Ms. Saumya Ray, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Ms. Bina Gupta, Mr. Vinay Kumar Garg, Mr. K.K. Mohan, Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha.
For the Rajasthan High Court : Mr. Sunil Kr. Jain.
For the State of Uttar Pradesh : Mr. Prashant Chaudhary, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, Mr. Shrish Kr. Misra.
For the High Court : Mr. T.L.V. Iyer (Kerala), Mr. T.G.N. Nair (Mizoram), Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Mr. R. Sathish.
For the High Court of Calcutta : Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Mr. G.S. Chatterjee, Mr. Sachin Das, Mr. Raja Chatterjee (Puducherry), Mr. V.G. Pragasam, Mr. S.J. Aristotle, Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian.
For the Tamil Nadu : Mr. T. Harish Kumar.
For the State and High Court of Delhi : Ms. A. Subhashini.
For the Haryana : Mr. Manjit Singh, Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, Mr. T.V. George.
For the Gujarat : Mrs. Hemantika Wahi, Ms. Nupur Kanungo, Mr. Somanath Pandey.
For the State of Madhya Pradesh : Mr. B.S. Banthia, Mr. Vikas Upadhyay.
For the High Court of Orissa : Mr. Janaranjan Das, Mr. Swetaketu Mishra, Mr. P.P. Nayak.
For the Nagaland : Mr. S. Balaji, Mr. Atul Jha, Mr. D.K. Sinha, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Mr. Himinder Lal, Ms. Rajni Ohri Lal, M/s. S.W.A. Qadri, Shalinder Saini, Rekha Pandey, Sunita Sharma, Ron Bastian, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Mr. D.S. Mahra.
For the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir : Mr. Bharat Sangal, Ms. Mrinalini Oinam, Mr. Mehdi Imam, Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Mr. Anis Suhrawardy.
For the Manipur : Mr. Kh. Nobin Singh.
For the Assam : Mr. Riku Sarma, M/s. Corporate Law Group.
For the West Bengal : Mr. Bhaskar P. Gupta, Mr. Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms. Neelam Sharma.
For the State and Uttarakhand : Ms. Rachana Srivastava, Mr. T.N. Rao.
For the UPPSC : Mr. Shail Kr. Dwivedi, Ms. Vandana Mishra, Mr. Ashutosh K. Sharma, Mr. Manoj K. Dwivedi.
For the Bihar : Mr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Gopal Singh.
For the Tripura : Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. Biswanath Agrawalla, Mr. Rajiv Mehta.
For High Court of Andhra Pradesh : Mr. T.V. Ratnam.
For State and Sikkim High Court : Mr. A. Mariarputham, Mrs. Aruna Mathur, Mr. Amarjeet Singh Girsa, M/s. Arputham Aruna, Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh.
For State of Maharasshtra : Mr. Sanjay Kharde, Mrs. Asha G. Nair.
For the High Court of Madhya Pradesh : Mr. C.D. Singh, Mr. Sunny Chaudhary, Ms. Sukanya, Mr. Kamlendra Mishra.
For the All High Court : Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Mr. Ashok K. Srivastava, Mr. Shaiwal Srivastava, Mr. Debasis Misra, Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee.
For State of Arunachal Pradesh : Mr. Anil Shrivastav, Mr. P.I. Jose, Mr. Vivek Kandari, Mr. Pradeep Misra, Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, Mr. Ashok Mathur, Mr. Arun K. Sinha, M/s. A. Rohen Singh, Ramesh K. Mishra, Ramesh S. Jadhan, Vikrant Yadav, Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Mr. Jatinder Kr. Bhatia.
For the High Court of Sikkim : Ms. Anupama Sharma, Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Ms. S. Janani.
For State of Jharkhand : Mr. B.B. Singh.
For the High Court of Patna : Mr. P.H. Parekh, Mr. Ajay Kr. Jha, Mr. Vishal Prasad, Ms. Pallavi Srivastava, M/s. Parekh, Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Mr. S. Bhowmick, Mr. S.C. Ghosh, Ms. Kamini Jaiswal.
For the State of Andhra Pradesh : Ms. Altaf Fathima, Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy.
For the State of Punjab : Mr. Ajay Pal.
For the High Court of Punjab and Haryana : Ms. Asha Jain Madan, Mr. Sachin Sharma, Mr. S.C. Patel, Ms. Binu Tamta, Mr. T. Mahipal, Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, Mr. G. Prakash, Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, Mr. Anuvrat Sharma.
For the High Court of Tamil Nadu : Mr. R. Nedumaran, Ms. Sumita Hazarika, Mr. Siddhartha Chaudhary, Mr. Sunil Kr. Verma, Mr. Ugra Shankar Prasad, Mr. S. Chandra Shekhar, M/s. K. Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho, Rituraj Biswas, C.M.K. Kennedy, Mr. Soma Sundaram, Dr. Manish Singhvi, Mr. Devanshu Kumar Devesh, Mr. Milind Kumar, Mr. Vinay Kumar Sharma, Mr. Arvind Kumar Tiwary, Ms. Archna Kumari, Mr. R.S. Sharma, Mr. Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Dharam Bir Raj Vohra, Mr. Amit Kumar, Mr. Jawahar Lal, Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, Mr. Shankar Divate, Mr. A. Mariyarputham, Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Mr. V. Giri, Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Mr. D.N. Ray, Mr. Lokesh K. Choudhary, Ms. Sumita Ray, Mr. Ashwani Garg, Mr. Azim H. Laskar, Mr. Sachin Das, Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, Mr. Krishnanand Pandey.

JUDGMENT :

I.A. No. 77

1. Justice Shetty Commission had suggested several recommendations to improve working of judicial service in various States. In the recommendations made by the Shetty Commission it was suggested that there should be rationalisation of cadre structure and base structure and also recommended that there should be Assured Carrier Promotion of Civil Judges (Sr. Divn.) and Civil Judges (Jr. Divn.). The Commission also recommended that not exceeding 25% of the cadre posts of District Judges should be reserved for direct recruitment. Various other recommendations have also been made by the Commission.

2. The matter had come up before this Court on the judicial side to consider the recommendations. After due considerations most of the recommendations of Shetty Commission have been accepted by this Court. In All India Judges' Association and Others vs. Union of India and Others, 2002 (4) SCC 247 this Court accepted the recommendations and gave approval to these recommendations. But certain changes have also been made by this Court while accepting these recommendations. In paragraph 27 of the above mentioned Judgment this Court stated:

    “In order to achieve this, while the r

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