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Meghalaya HC wants changes in new service framework

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NEW DELHI: Meghalaya is among the eight states whose high courts have suggested changes in age at induction level, qualifications, training and quota of vacancies to be filled through the proposed All India Judicial Service, the Law Ministry has said.
Nine high courts have opposed a proposal to have an all-India service for lower judiciary, eight have sought changes in the proposed framework and only two have supported the idea, a law ministry document says.
The Allahabad, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa and Uttarakhand high courts have sought changes in the proposed framework and only two have supported the idea, the document says.
“Most of the high courts want the administrative control over the subordinate judiciary to remain with the respective high courts,” it said.
The document, sent to all members of the parliamentary consultative committee on law and justice, also states that most of the 24 high courts want control over the subordinate judiciary. The Narendra Modi government has given a fresh push to the long-pending proposal to set up the new service to have a separate cadre for lower judiciary in the country.
The idea was first mooted in the 1960s. According to the document, the high courts of Andhra Pradesh, Bombay, Delhi Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Patna and, Punjab and Haryana “have not favoured the idea of All-India Judicial Service (AIJS)”.
It said only the high courts of Sikkim and Tripura have concurred with the proposal approved by the committee of secretaries for formation of an all-India service for lower judiciary. (PTI)

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