SC extends time for gazette notification

Published: 15 January 2017, 07:03 AM
SC extends time for gazette notification

The Supreme Court extended time till February 5 to publish a gazette notification on the rules determining discipline and conduct of lower court judges.

A seven-member bench of Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order on Sunday.

The lower judiciary was officially separated in November 2007 but the disciplinary rules for lower court judges are yet to be finalised.

The government had drafted the rules and sent those to the SC for its opinion. The court revised the draft rules in the light of the 1999 verdict in the separation of the judiciary case.