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2023 Supreme(SC) 557

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA
All India Judges Association – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. K. Parameshwar, Adv. (A.C.) Mr. M.V. Mukunda, Adv. Ms. A. Sregurupriya, Adv. Ms. Arti Gupta, Adv. Ms. Kanti, Adv. Mr. Gourab Banerjee, Sr. Adv. Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, AOR Mr. VP Singh, Adv. Mr. Vyom Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Subhro, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Rathore, Adv. Mr. Venkata Supreeth, Adv. Mr. Deepak Prakash, AOR Mr. Pawan Kr. Dabas, Adv. Mr. Raneev Dahiya, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Vajpayee, Adv. Ms. Divyangna Malik, Adv. Mr. Shyam Nair, Adv. Mr. Vardaan Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Vishnu Priya, Adv. Ms. Shwetam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Lakhera, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Mohd Akhil, Adv. Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Rajan Kumar Chourasia, Adv. Mr. Wasim Qadri, Adv. Mr. Anandh Venkataramni, Adv. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. P. Vishwanatha Shetty, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mrs. Vipasha Singh, Adv. Mrs. Geetanjali Bedi, Adv. Ms. Shivani, Adv. Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Abhisek Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR Mr. Aditeya Bali, Adv. Mr. Remish Lakra, Adv. Mr. Anupam Mishra, Adv. Mr. James P. Thomas, Adv. Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR Ms. Naveen Goel, Adv. Mr. Kartik Kaushal, Adv. Mr. Rakshit Jain, Adv. Mr. Adithya Koshy Roy, Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Aditya Bhanu Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Sunando Raha, Adv. Mr. Nishant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anupam Raina, AOR Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Mr. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, AOR Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.r, Adv. Mr. Likhi Chand Bonsle, Adv. Mr. Rahat Bansal, Adv. Ms. Komal Mundhra, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Swathi H. Prasad, Adv. Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mrs. Prabhati Nayak, Adv. Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Adv. Mr. Debabrata Dash, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. For M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, AOR Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. K V Girish Chowdary, Adv. Mr. T Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Sai Shashank, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Devashish Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Arora, Adv. Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Mr. Hemant Gupta, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Ms. Payal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shivang Jain, Adv. Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv. Ms. Amrita Verma, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akshay Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Sabharwal, Adv. Mr. Akshay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vinayaka S Pandit, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash, Adv. Ms. Divija Mahajan, Adv. Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, A.A.G. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Ms. Manicka Priya, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, A.A.G. Ms. Ankita Choudhary, A.A.G. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Ms. Shreya Saxena, Adv. Ms. Yamini Singh, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. General, Sr. Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mrs. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Md Sontu Mia, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Sugandh Rathor, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Arpit Parkash, Adv. Ms. Shubhangi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv. Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv. Ms. Sugandh Rathore, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Mr. Sriharsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, AOR Ms. Pallavi, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas, Adv. Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR Mr. Joydip Roy, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Uday B. Dube, AOR Mr. K.Parameshwar, AOR Ms. Arti Gupta, Adv. Ms. Kanti, Adv. Mr. M. V. Mukunda, Adv. Mr. Deepak Prakash, AOR Mr. Pawan Kr. Dabas, Adv. Mr. Raneev Dahiya, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Vajpayee, Adv. Ms. Divyangna Malik, Adv. Mr. Shyam Nair, Adv. Mr. Vardaan Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Vishnu Priya, Adv. Ms. Shwetam, Adv. Mr. Rahul Lakhera, Adv. Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, AOR Mr. K.Sudhakar Reddy, Adv. Mr. K. Sriram, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankur Kashyap, AOR Mr. Rohit Rajershi, Adv. Mr. Aman Bajaj, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

INDEX

2.

The SNJPC’s Report and the Orders of this Court

3.

Submissions of Counsel

4.

Principles Evolved for Judicial Pay, Pension and Allowances

I. Uniformity in Designations and Service Conditions

II. Separation of Powers and Comparison with Political Executive

III. Independence of the District Judiciary is Part of the Basic Structure

IV. Judicial Independence and Access to Justice Ensures Implementation of Part III of the Constitution

V. Equivalence of Judicial Functions of District Judiciary and Higher Judiciary

V.0 Recommendations on pay

V.1 Orders of this Court on SNJPC Recommendations on Pay

V.2 Consideration of Recommendations on Pay

I. Redesignation of Judicial Officers in Conformity with the All India Pattern (Recommendation 44.1)

II. New Pay Structure as per Pay Matrix Model (Recommendation 44.2, 44.3)

III. Multiplier of 2.81 and


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