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Supreme Court ruling on selection of judicial officers

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that High Courts are empowered to evolve their own procedure for the selection and recruitment of judicial officers for the subordinate courts in the respective States.

A vacation Bench of Justice A.R. Lakshmanan and Justice L.S. Panta said under the Indian Constitution, the High Court was vested with the entire administration of the subordinate judiciary.

"The High Court is vested with the power to see that the high traditions and standards of the judiciary are maintained by the selection of proper persons to man the subordinate judiciary," the Bench said.

Mr. Lakshmanan was of the view that it would not be proper to confine the High Court within any limits and it was, therefore, that the procedure of selection of judicial officers had been left to the High Court itself.

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