LONG FELT NEED EFFECTUATED

The Supreme Court’s fiat for the implementation of Justice Padmanabham Committee’s recommendations for higher pay scale for lower judiciary across the Country is immensely laudable. The judges are entrusted with a noble duty to deliver all-encompassing justice. It entails that a judge must possesses the sterling qualities of competency, integrity and impartiality. The Lord Denning rightly said that “the independence of the judges can be threatened not only by the political or executive interference, but also by financial anxiety”. In contemporary consumerist materialistic society, the lure of lucre rules the roost. The bright law graduates either scramble for lucrative positions in corporate world or prefer to be in the Bar for want of attractive perks and pelf in the judicial services, and in the domain of law teaching. Moreover, in the face of fierce docket explosion in the Courts and abysmal insufficiency of requisite judicial strength, the judges deserve to be adequately recompensed commensurate with the arduous duties they perform. Hopefully, the Court’s order will render the judges their legitimate dues and also act as a spur to motivate the best talent to opt for the judicial services. Kudos to Dr. Neelima Shangla (Additional District & Session Judge, Kurukshetra, and President, Judicial Officers Association, Haryana) and for making the things possible by her sheer erudite & convincing pleadings before the Apex Court, and in this process, also for having added one more resplendent feather in her illustrious cap.