Taking serious note of almost 300 vacancies existing in the cadre of Civil Judge in the subordinate judiciary in the State and cases as old as 30 years still pending adjudication, the Madras High Court has impressed upon the need for conducting judicial service examinations every year without a break.
Justices S. Vaidyanathan and K. Rajasekar said only if the recruitment process was conducted year on year, the pending litigations could be minimized and also the complaints related to deprivation of promotion to eligible civil judges as sub-judges and sub-judges as district judges could be addressed.
The observations were made while dismissing a batch of writ petitions filed by a group of aspirants to the post of Civil Judge. The petitioners had challenged the recruitment notification issued by Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission on June 1 this year for recruiting 245 Civil Judges in the State.
