Question: Recently, the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Law Minister Kiren Rijiju. This bill seeks to amend which of the following Acts?
(a) High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954, and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958
(b) High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958, and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954
(c) High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954, and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954
(d) High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958, and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:
- Recently, the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021 was introduced in Lok Sabha. This Bill seeks to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954, and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958.
- This bill seeks to bring clarity whether the SC and HC judges are entitled to get additional pension on attaining a certain age.
- Currently, every retired judge or his family (after his death) is entitled to get an additional quantum of pension. This is generally referred as family pension.
- According to the bill, in 2009 the two laws were amended to provide that every retired judge or after his death, the family, as the case may be, will be entitled to an additional quantum of pension or family pension.
- Currently, the retired High Court and Supreme Court judges are provided with additional quantum of pension on completing 80 years or 85 years or 90 years or 95 years or 100 years which ever the case may be.
BY: AMIT GUPTA