Big Decision of Supreme Court: The Supreme Court has taken a big decision regarding the pending criminal cases in the High Court across the country. High courts can now appoint ad-hoc judges to settle pending criminal cases. These Ed-Hawk Judge will sit in the bench with regular judges. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna, Justice BR Gawai and Justice Suryakant said that each High Court can appoint two to five ad-hoc judges, but in any case, this number, 10 percent of the approved number Should not exceed.

The Supreme Court said, “Each High Court will appoint Ed Hawk judges by resorting to Article 224A.” Apart from this, the court said that the memorandum of the process for such appointments will be implemented and it will be resorted to. If necessary, this back will re -hear for further instructions. If necessary, the parties can file an application again.

The green signal was given in 2021

The court had earlier expressed a desire to amend certain conditions mentioned for the appointment of Ed Hawk judges in the April 2021 judgment. In fact, the apex court had approved the appointment of Ed-Hawk judges in the High Courts for the first time in the April 2021 judgment. However, in the same judgment, the court had also warned against appointing judges on an ad-hoc basis instead of appointing regular judges. The bench had said that Ed-Hawk Judges did not see the regular judges as a regular option. May go. Therefore, the court had set some trigger points for the appointment of Ed-Hawk judges. One of these was that Ed-Hawk judges can be appointed only when the vacancies are more than 20 percent of the approved number. Other points include such situations, such as when a particular category of cases are pending for five or more years or when more than 10 percent backlog has been pending for five years or more or when the rate of setting up new cases is settled rate Be more than, but now the Supreme Court has relaxed this limit.

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