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The Supreme Court directed the implementation of increased pay scales for judicial officers of subordinate courts across the country, which will enhance their salary almost three-fold.


A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan said state governments would give salary as per the recommendations of the Justice Padmanabhan committee.
The new pay scale that could treble their salaries translating into a monthly increase of Rs 20,000 at the entry level.

All India Judges Association (AIJA) had approached the apex court seeking implementation of the recommendation of the Committee contending that there has been a wide disparity between the salary of judicial officers and other government employees.

The hike in pay scales is to be implemented with effect from January 2006

The new judicial pay commission appointed by the Supreme Court in April this year will submit its recommendations in a month's time.

Given the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations for central government babus, a proportionate increase in salaries of judicial officers, who had demanded a three-fold increase, is on the cards.

But, Justice E Padmanabhan heading the new judicial pay commission, the second one after the first one under Justice Jagannath Shetty, said there would be no delay on his part in meeting the deadline for submitting the recommendations. The Supreme Court had posted the hearing on the matter concerning the pay of subordinate court judges for July 28.

The petition seeking increase in the salary of the trial court judges was filed in the Supreme Court shortly after the Chief Justice of India and judges of the SC and the high courts got a three-fold salary hike earlier this year.

The logic for seeking appointment of a new pay commission was that the first judicial pay commission headed by Justice Shetty had said that whenever there was an upward revision of salaries of HC judges, the salaries of lower court judges should also be proportionately revised.

source: the times of india