{"id":276108,"date":"2026-01-07T00:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276108"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:34:03","slug":"appoint-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/appoint-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No ad hoc judges have been appointed in any high court so far to address pending criminal cases in the country, despite the Supreme Court permitting such appointments nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court allowed ad hoc appointments in January last year due to rising case pendency. Yet, even after a year, none of India&#8217;s 25 high courts has recommended names for ad hoc judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This delay raises serious questions about the commitment to resolving pending cases, as over 18 lakh criminal cases are currently pending across high courts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ad hoc judges can be appointed up to 10% of a high court&#8217;s sanctioned strength. However, the union Law Ministry has not received any recommendations from high court collegiums, according to government documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the appointment process is lengthy and involves scrutiny by the Supreme Court and the signature of the president of India, a year is, in itself, a considerable period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the government, there have still been no appointments despite all procedural clearances being in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given the sheer number of cases awaiting trial, there is an urgent need for such appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No ad hoc judges have been appointed in any high court so far to address pending criminal cases in the country, despite the Supreme Court permitting such appointments nearly a year ago. The Supreme Court allowed ad hoc appointments in January last year due to rising case pendency. Yet, even after a year, none of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}