SC: Record judges’ confidential reports
As the executive and judiciary are grappling with the problems faced by the subordinate courts in the country, the Supreme Court has taken a serious view of the high court administration not even recording the “confidential reports” of the judicial officers in time leading to various complications regarding their confirmation, promotion and other service-related issues.
Terming the non-serious approach towards the recording of confidential reports as “unfortunate”, a bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar directed the Union secretary personnel, public grievances and pension and the chief secretaries of the states to issue appropriate guidelines in this regard within eight weeks.
“We do express a pious hope that steps will be taken to ensure timely recording of the confidential reports of the judicial officers by appropriate authority (which in terms of Chapter-VI with particular reference to the provision of Article 235 of the Constitution is the high court),” the bench said.
The SC said the law required that the confidential reports of every judicial officer has to be in “elaborate format” depicting his performance in all relevant fields, so as to ensure that they will not be denied what is due to them in accordance with the law and on the basis of their performance.
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