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Madras HC judicial vacancy to rise to over 50 per cent

Madras high court is set to break its own judicial vacancy record by March 2016, functioning at 40 less judges than its sanctioned strength of 75 judges, reported Times of India.

Madras, along side Delhi, is the fourth largest out of 24 Indian high courts, according to the Department of Justice.

The central government increased the sanctioned strength of judges in each high court by 25 per cent in February this year, and in Madras in the last two years while 10 judges have retired none have been appointed. Justice V M Velumani, on 21 December 2013, was the last judge to be sworn in at the court.

The high court had recalled 12 prospective judge names recommended by the collegium, in an unprecedented move in February 2014, after protest by lawyers, as then reported by Legally India.

Nine names were recommended, after that recall, by the current collegium.

The 24 high courts across the country have a sanctioned strength of 1,170 judges but they are working with about 60 percent of their sanctioned strength. There are 370 vacancies in the high courts.

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