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2023 Supreme(SC) 998

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, J. B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA
Malik Mazhar Sultan – Appellant
Versus
U. P. Public Service Commission – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr AAG Haryana Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Mr. P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
For the Amicus : Mr. Vijay Hansaria, Sr. Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Ms. Kavya Jhawar, Adv. Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh, AOR Mr. M. R. Shamshad, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Ms. Riddhima Juneja, Adv. Mr. Japnish Singh Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. James P. Thomas, Adv. Mrs. Naresh Bakshi, AOR Mr. Anuvrat Sharma, AOR Mr. Naresh Kumar, AOR Mr. K. Parameshwar, AOR Ms. Arti Gupta, Adv. Ms. Kanti, Adv. Mr. Chinmay Kalgaonkar, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Gajendra Singh Negi, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv. Ms. Harsha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. M. Bangaraswamy, Adv. Mr. Varun Varma, Adv. Mr. S. Shashank Reddy, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, AOR M/S. Plr Chambers And Co. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Ahanthem Henry, Adv. Mr. Maibam Nabaghanashyam Singh, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Kaushal Yadav, AOR Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shafik Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Arjun Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Adv. Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Dhruv Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR Ms. Deepshikha Sansanwal, Adv. Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Shail Kumar Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Anil K. Jha, AOR Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Rana Ranjit Singh, AOR Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Ravish Singh, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Singh, Adv. Mr. Avijeet Kumar, Adv. Mrs. Sweta Singh, Adv. M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Mr. Merusagar Samantaray, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Abhisek Mohanty, Adv. Mr. Atul Sharma, AOR Mr. Sri Harsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Ms. Kriti Sinha, Adv. Ms. Pallavi, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, AOR Mr. Krishnayan Sen, AOR Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Shreya Bansal, Adv. Mr. Aniket Singh, Adv. Ms. A. Subhashini, AOR Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Satish Pandey, AOR Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv. Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, AOR Ms. Adviteeya, Adv. Mr. Sai Shashank, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Ms. Binu Tamta, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas, Adv. Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Adv. Ms. Chitrangda Rastaravara, Adv. Mr. Pratyush Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Suvendu Suvasis Dash, AOR Mr. Shantwanu Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Dubey, Adv. Ms. Pragya Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunny Singh, Adv. Mr. Akshay Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Krishnam Mishra, Adv. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, AOR Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashiwan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR Mr. Y. Raja Gopala Rao, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Ms. S. Janani, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Mr. R. Sathish, AOR Ms. Asha Jain Madan, AOR Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. T. V. Ratnam, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv. Ms. Sugandh Rathor, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. T. V. George, AOR Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, AOR Ms. Rashika Swarup, Adv. Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR Mr. Siddharth, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Adv. Mr. R. Nedumaran, AOR Ms. Sumita Hazarika, AOR Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Ashwani Kumar, AOR Mr. Karan Bharihoke, AOR Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, A.A.G. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Aastha Shrestha, Adv. Mr. Beenu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Japneesh S Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Ridhima S Juneja, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, AOR Mr. Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, AOR Mr. Ranjan Kumar, AOR Mr. John Mathew, Adv. Mr. Dharam Veer Yadav, Adv. Ms. Kirti, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, AOR Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Omprakash Ajitsingh Parihar, AOR Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, AOR Sayaree Basu Mallik, AOR Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AOR Ms. Sarvshree, Adv. Mr. Shobhit Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Swati Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Dhruv Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Mr. Surender Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Anoop Rattan, AG Mr. P.K. Thakur, Adv. Mr. Tavleen Singh, Adv. Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Singh, AOR

JUDGMENT :

DHANANJAYA Y. CHANDRACHUD, CJI.

1. An application has been filed by the State of Haryana in the proceedings in Malik Mazhar Sultan vs. U.P. Public Service Commission, Civil Appeal No. 1867 of 2006 seeking two directions:

    (i) The recruitment of judicial officers in the Judicial Branch of the Haryana Civil Service be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Part C of the Punjab Civil Service (Judicial Branch) Rules 19511 [“Rules”] (as applicable to State of Haryana).

    (ii) The order of this Court dated 12 February 2009 in I.A. No. 60 of 2008 filed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana be modified.

2. The issue bears upon the filling up of 175 posts of Junior Civil Judges.

3. By its order dated 4 January 2007, this Court underscored that an independent and efficient judicial system is part of the basic structure of the Constitution and that if a sufficient number of Judges is not appointed, the dispensation of justice to citizens would be seriously affected. The Court noted that the judicial system faces problems arising out of delays in the dispensation of justice for which one of the major causes is an insufficient number of judges when compared to the large number of


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