Making efforts to fill up vacancies, improve judicial infrastructure: CJI N V Ramana

Hyderabad | Friday | 15th April, 2022

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Hyderabad, Apr 15 (PTI) Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana on Friday said he is making efforts to fill up vacancies in the judiciary and to improve judicial infrastructure in the country, besides addressing issues relating to security of judges and others.

Our judiciary is overburdened, he said, while speaking after inaugurating the two-day Telangana State Judicial Officers Conference here.

Justice Ramana said he has taken up filling up of vacancies and improving the infrastructure of the judiciary soon after taking over as CJI.

"The reason is access to justice is possible only when we provide sufficient number of courts as well as infrastructure," he said.

Justice Ramana said he wanted to see that there are no pending vacancies either in the high courts, Supreme Court or the district judiciary.

He also sought to see that the judicial system is strengthened.