Visakhapatnam: India has just 18 judges for every ten lakh people as against 40 in other developing countries. Over 477 posts of judges in various high courts are vacant as on July 25, 2016 and over 4,400 judge posts in district and subordinate courts are vacant as on December 31, 2015.
According to the government, three judge posts remained vacant in the Supreme Court and 477 judge positions vacant across all the high courts.
The Allahabad HC appears to be the worst affected with 83 judge positions vacant followed by the Punjab and Haryana HC with 41 vacancies, the Madras High Court 37 and the Hyderabad High Court 36.
Centre puts Hyderabad CJ name on hold
The Supreme Court collegium has repor-tedly recommended Justice K.M. Joseph, the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand HC, for heading the Hydera-bad High Court after the elevation of Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale. According to sour-ces, the Centre withheld the appointment of Justice K.M. Joseph, though it has cleared the elevation of Justice Bhosale on July 28.
