'Give trial judges pay parity with central civil service officers'

Brushing aside cries of financial crunch, the Supreme Court on Friday brought smiles on the faces of 20,000 judicial officers by directing the states and UTs to increase their pay by 2.8 times to bring them almost on par with the salaries of the Central Civil Services officers, while ruling that financial independence of trial judges are as important as those in HCs and the SC.

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