HCs have assured action to fill vacancies, CJI tells Centre

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Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has written to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that Chief Justices of High Courts have assured “positive and accelerated action” in the process of filling up vacancies in their respective High Courts. The CJI, in his letter, said he had impressed on the Chief Justices of High Courts, during an interaction, the “need to expedite the process of sending recommendations through Collegium to fill up the vacancies in the respective High Courts”. “This was in furtherance to my communication addressed to the Chief Justices of all the High Courts soon after I had assumed the Office of the Chief Justice of India. I have been assured of positive and accelerated action by the Chief Justices,” the CJI wrote.