CJI writes to PM, seeks increase in number of Supreme Court judges

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written three letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an increase in the strength of judges in the Supreme Court and raising the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years.

“I request you to kindly consider, on top priority, to augment the judge-strength in the SC appropriately so that it can function more efficiently and effectively as it will go a long way to attain the ultimate goal of rendering timely justice to the litigant public,” Gogoi wrote.

To clear the huge backlog of cases, the CJI further urged the prime minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court and HC judges under Articles 128 and 224A of the Constitution respectively.