The Supreme Court on Thursday raised the retirement age of judicial officers of Madhya Pradesh from 60 to 61 years.
In an interim order, a bench consisting of Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices Prasanna B Varale and K Vinod Chandran described a comparable choice taken by the Telangana High Court. It asked why judicial officers must be rejected the relief when the state federal government wanted to do so.
“It is needless to say that judicial officers as well as other employees of the state government draw salaries from the same public exchequer,” the bench stated, including that the retirement age of other state civil servant is 62 years.
In any case there is a distinction of one year in between the retirement age of high court judges and the district court judges, the court stated.
High court judges retire at the age of 62 and now the age of superannuation of district court judges in Madhya Pradesh will be 61.
The bench published the plea for last hearing after 4 weeks.
Senior supporter Gopal Sankaranarayanan, standing for the Madhya Pradesh High Court, opposed the submissions looking for improvement of retirement age of district court judges.
On October 27, the leading court had actually looked for actions from the Madhya Pradesh federal government and the high court computer registry on a plea challenging the rejection to boost the retirement age of judicial officers in the state from 60 to 61 years.
On May 26, a bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai had actually stated there was no legal obstacle in raising the retirement age to 61 years for judicial officers in Madhya Pradesh.
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