Supreme Court important Order to hike salary for judicial officer

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has continued its judgment of 27 July 2022 regarding the increase in the salary of judicial officers. The court rejected the petition filed by the central and state governments against the commission’s recommendation. Also ordered to pay the balance in three installments.Supreme Court important Order to hike salary for judicial officer.

The Second National Judicial Pay Commission has recommended that the salaries of judicial officers should be increased and implemented soon. Considering a petition filed by the All India Judges’ Association, the Supreme Court while delivering its judgment on 27 July 2022 said that judicial officers do not come under any commission constituted by the government, hence their pay scale should be increased.

The application was submitted by the Central and State Govt

Following the Supreme Court’s direction, a review petition was filed by the Center and some states, against which the Supreme Court dismissed the petition. The order of 27 July 2022 is upheld. A division bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Hima Kohli said that no error was apparent before the record. In such a situation, the salary of judicial officers should be increased on the recommendation of the commission.

The Supreme Court also ordered to pay the arrears.

The Supreme Court directed the central and state governments to pay the dues in three instalments. 23 percent in the first installment, followed by 23 percent after three months and the entire balance due by June 2023.

Constitution of Judicial Officers for review

It may be noted that the second highest National Judicial Pay Commission was constituted in 2017 to review the pay scales and other conditions of judicial officers related to subordinate judiciary across the country. For this, a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Abdul Nazeer appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice PV Reddy as the chairman of the commission and former Kerala High Court judge and senior advocate of the Supreme Court R. Basant was made a member.

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