In a batch of applications filed before the Supreme Court seeking the recall of an order dated 14-08-2025 passed by this Court, a Bench comprising Former Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran allowed the application for the recall of the said order and held that Judicial Officers appointed prior to the judgment dated 20-05-2025 would not be required to fulfil the requirement of three years’ practice at the Bar.

Apart from praying for the recall of the order dated 14-08-2025, the applicant prayed for an exemption from the specific directions passed by this Court in a judgment dated 20-05-2025, whereby three years’ experience as an advocate was made mandatory for applying to the post of Civil Judge, Junior Division.

In the present matter, the applicant had been provisionally enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi from 28-07-2018, and, as there was no requirement for prior practice at the relevant time, the applicant immediately applied for the post of Civil Judge, Junior Division, in the Delhi Judicial Services. In furtherance, she also applied for the same post in other State Judicial Services.

After being selected in the Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services, the applicant was appointed as a Civil Judge, Entry Level, on 19-11-2019. However, the applicant continued to apply for the post of Civil Judge, Junior Division, in other States.

The Court noted that, although the applicant had been working as a Judicial Officer for 6 years, she had not completed 3 years of practice as an advocate, as this was not a requirement at the relevant time. It was held that the said condition would not apply to the applicant, as she had already worked as a Judicial Officer for 6 years.

Further, the Court clarified that for Judicial Officers appointed before the judgment passed on 20-05-2025, the requirement of three years’ practice would not be necessary if they apply for judicial services in any other State. However, the Court said that this was subject to their completing three years’ service in their present State.

Appearances:

For Petitioners – Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Mr. Ankit Yadav, Mr. Aditya Sidhra, Ms. Ananya Nair, Mr. Nadeem Afroz, Ms. Gunjan Rathore, Ms. Shivangi Gulati, Ms. Aastha Harshwal,Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Pandey, Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, Mr. Paras Chauhan, Mr. N.Maylsamy, Ms. Kuheli Mitra, Mr. Balmiki Prasad, Mr. Birendra Kumar, Mr. Hardeep, Mr. Pravir Kumar Jain, Mrs. Amita Gupta, Mr. Rakesh Dahiya; B Shravanth Shanker AOR, Prerna Robin and Shivam Kunal .

For Respondents – Ms. A. Subhashini, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Mr. Ajay Kumar, Mr. Satish Kumar, Mr. T. V. Ratnam, Mr. Arjun Garg, Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Mr. Saaransh Shukla, Ms. Muskan Bensla, Ms. G. Indira, Mr. Anandh Kannan N., Mr. Gopal Jha, Mr. Karan Bharihoke,Mr. C Raghavendren, Mrs. C Rubavathi, Mr. P Rajaram, Mr. Saurabh Gupta, Mr. Devansh Tyagi, Mr. Ch Leela Sarveswar, Mr. M. A. Chinnasamy, Mr. K. Gopinath, Mr. Amit Kumar,Mr. Ajit Pudussery, Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, Mr. Devesh Maurya, Ms. Sheetal Kandpal, Mr. R.d. Maurya, Mr. Ravi Kumar, Ms. Mini Gangadharan, Mr. Praveen Swarup, Mr. T. Harish Kumar, Mr. Ashok Mathur, Ms. Manpreet Kaur, Ms. Shradha Zutshi,Mr. Pradeep Misra, Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Ms. Kumud Lata Das, Mr. Harsh Ajay Singh, Ms. Rubina Jawed, Ms. Pooja Rathore, Mr. Siddhant Narayan Das, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Mr. Kanishk Mor, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Mr. P. Parmeswaran, Mrs. Revathy Raghavan, Mr. Rajiv Mehta, Mr. Abhisth Kumar, Mr. Arun K. Sinha, Mr. P. K. Jain, Mr. Jitendra Mohan Sharma, Mr. P. I. Jose, Mr. Anupam Mishra, Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, Mr. Parijat Sinha, Mr. Haresh Raichura, Mrs. Saroj Raichura, Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, Mr. Shashikant Pralhad Chaudhari, Mr. T. Mahipal, Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Mr. Anil Shrivastav, M/S. Parekh & Co., Mr. K.m.nataraj, Mr. Nalin Kohli, Mr. B.K.Satija, Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Mr. Raman Yadav, Mr. Aaditya Dixit, Dr. N. Visakamurthy, M/S. Gagrat &Co, Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Mr. Kanhaiya Priyadarshi, Mr. M. Veerappa, M/S. Arputham Aruna & Co, Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Mr. Gaurav Verma, Ms. Riddhi Gupta, Mr. Neeraj Dutt Gaur, Mr. K. Ram Kumar, Mr. Anil Nag, Ms. Sanya Kashyap, Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, Dr. Sushil Balwada, Mr. Kaushal Yadav, Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Mr. Pravir Choudhary, Mr. Reepak Kansal, Mrs. Geeta Rani, Mr. Ajay Kumar, Ms. Ruhi Gupta, Ms. Shama Praveen, Mr. Venketa Balaji Kodvali, Mr. Lalit Bhargava, Mr. Prabhu Vashisth, Mr. Kishan Datta, M/S. Corporate Law Group, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, Mr. A. Hariprasad, Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, Ms. Swathi H Prasad, Mr. Ajaya Kumar K.r., Ms. Samyuktha H Nair, Ms. N. Annapoorani, Mr. V. K. Sidharthan, Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. T. L. Garg, Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, Mr. Sanjay Jain, Mr. G. Prakash, Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, Ms. Rashika Swarup, Mr. Naman Jain, Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, Mr. Surya Kant, Dr. J. P. Dhanda, Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, Ms. A. Sumathi, Ms. Prasanthi @bharathi, Mrs. Bina Gupta, Mr. R. Sathish, Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, Ms. Aakriti Sood, Mr. Yash Kirti Kumar Bharti, Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, Mr. Manish K. Bishnoi, Mr. B. D. Sharma, Mr. R. N. Keswani, Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy,

Mr. Nishant Sharma, Mrs. D Tejaswi Reddy, Mr. S. Sukumaran, Mr. Anand Sukumar, Mr. Bhupesh Kumar Pathak, Mrs. Ruche Anand, Ms. Meera Mathur, Mr. T. V. George, Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, Ms. Prerna Singh, Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Mr. Bharat Bagla, Mr. Sourav Singh, Mr. Aditya Krishna, Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Mr. P. S. Sudheer, M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, Mr. Bijo Mathew Joy, Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Mr. Bharat Bagla, Mr. Sourav Singh, Mr. Aditya Krishna, Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Ms. Yachna Sharma, Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Ms. Sweena Madhavan Nair,Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, Mr. S.J.Amith, Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Mr. Amit, Mr. Abhishek Tripathi, Mr. Prakhar Singh, Ms. Thanuja. V, Mr. Rajiv Kumar, Mr. Santosh Kumar, Ms. Vani Vyas, Mrs. Pragya Baghel, Mr. Maninderjit Singh Bedi, Ms. Nupur Kumar, Mr. Abhimanyu Singh Ga, Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, Mr. Anil Hooda, Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Mr. Ankur Kashyap, Mr. H. D. Thanvi, Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh, Mr. Kshitish Bikarmia, Mr. Rishi Matoliya, Mr. G. N. Reddy, Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Mr. Ajay Pal, Mr. Atul Kumar, Ms. Archana Kumari, Ms. Sweety Singh,Ms. Rahul Pandey, Mr. Ashutosh Upadhyay, Mr. Harsh Kumar, Ms. Diksha Joshi, Ms. Meenakshi, Mr. Amit Gupta, Ms. Muskan Nagpal, Mr. Kshitij Vaibhav, Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, Mr. Vipin Nair, Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Mr. Amrish Kumar, Ms. Sujata Kurdukar,Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, Ms. G. Sushmita, Mr. Santosh Kumar Yadav, Mr. Abhishek Atrey, Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Ms. Ishita Bist, Ms. Vidyottma Jha, Mr. Brijesh Kumar, Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Mr. Vyom Raghuvanshi, Ms. Akanksha Rathore, Ms. Yashi Jain, Ms. Disha Jham, Mr. Adarsh Upadhyay, Ms. Pallavi Kumari, Mr. Shashank Pachauri, Mr. D. K. Devesh, Mr. Shashank Singh, Mr. Rajan Kumar, Mr. Ankit Singh, Mr. Umar Iqbal Khan, Mr. Milind Modi, Ms. Saima Javed, Mr. K.M. Nataraj Ld, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Mr. Nalin Kohli, Mr. B K Satija, Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Mr. Daya Krishan Sharma, Mr. Rohit Vats, Mr. Amod Bidhuri, Dr. K Elumalai, Mr. Shubham Rana, Mr. Kunal Mimani, Mr. Prashant Alai, Mr. Abhinav Rana, Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, Mr. Mahesh Thakur, Mr. Prashant Shukla, Mr. Abhishek Tiwari, Mr. Suyash Srivastava, Mr. Giridhar Upadhayay, Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, Mr. Vivek Sharma, Mr. Gopal Sankarnarayan, Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, Ms. Sakshi Banga, Mr. Siddharth Sahu, Ms. Astha Singh, Mr. Pradyut Kashyap, Ms. Smruthi Gangadhar, Mr. Nr Shwetabh, Mr. Abhay Kumar, Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Mr. Karan Chopra, Mr. K M Natraj, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav,

Mr. B K Satija, Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Mr. Rajeeva Ranjan Rajesh, Mr. Suvesh Kumar, Mr. Satish Pandey, Ms. Jay Jaimini Pandey, Mr. Harendra Kumar Sharma, Mr. Lalita Gupta, Mrs. Smriti Kumari, Mr. Akbar Ali, Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Mr. Anirudh Bankura, Mr. Braj Kishor Mishra, Mr. Meghraj Singh, Mr. Aravindh S., Ms. Anika Bansal, Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, Mr. Rao Raj Bahadur Singh, Mr. R. Murugaiyan, Mr. Vedant Mishra, Ms. Smita Amratlal Vora, Dr. Hemant Gupta, Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, Ms. Payal Gupta, Ms. Sabarni Som,

Mr. Rony John, Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Mr. Gaj Singh, Mr. Dhruv Raman Singh, Mr. Abhishek Kumar Suman, Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Mr. Lakshmeesh S. Kamath, Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, Ms. Chitra Parande, Ms. Shreya Nair, Mr. Madhav Gupta, Ms. Samriti Ahuja, Ms. Aditi Prakash, Mr. Tushar Shrivastava, Ms. Patil Rekha Chandra Gouda, Mr.Jaideep Gupta, Mr. Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Mr. Rohit Bansal, Mr. Varij Nayan Mishra, Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, Mr. Abhishek Yadav, Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Mr. Adrut Ashish, Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Mr. Santosh Krishnan, Mr. Niranjan Sahu, Ms. Vishakha, Mr. Santosh Mishra, Ms. Aswathi M.k., Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Mr. Anando Mukherjee, Mr. Shwetank Singh, Ms. Pooja Singh, Mr. Smarhar Singh, Ms. Shweta Kumari, Mr. Dhananjaya Kumar Tyagi, Mr. Mohd Asim, Mr. Pankaj Prakash, Mr. Surjeet Singh, Mr. Jai Krishna Singh, Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-i, Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr. Dipesh Sinha, Ms. Pallavi Barua, Ms. Aparna Singh, Ms. Esha Mazumdar, Mr. Devvrat, Mr. Shivam Singh, Ms. Harshita Sharma, Mr. Devesh Kumar Agnihotri, Mr. Subas Ray, Mr. Nitin Jain, Mr. Lenin Singh Hijam, Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Mr. Karun Sharma, Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Ms. Astha Sharma, Ms. Radhika Gautam,Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, Ms. Devyani Gupta, Mr. Saushriya Havelia A, Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Ms. Tanvi Anand, Mr. Danish Saifi, Ms. Ankita Sharma, Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Ms. Ishika Neogi, Mr. Venkata Raghuvamsy D., Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Mr. Ravi Bharuka, Mr. Kumar Murlidhar, Mr. Anunay Sahay, Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Mrs. Deepti Bhargava, Mr. Amarendra Kumar, Mr. Ashutosh Mohan, Mr. Abhinav Kaushik, Mr. Rishav Attri, Mr. Gautam Baranwal, Mr. Gaurav Arya, Mr. Prashant Trivedi, Mr. Anandh Kannan N., Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, Mr. Nishant Sharma, Mr. Mayur Saavarkar, Mr. Amit Pai, Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Mr. Abhiyudaya Vats, Mr. Tathagata Dutta, Mr. Akshay Girish Ringe, Mr. Kartikeya Rastogi, Ms. Inderdeep Kaur Raina, Ms. Tamanna Kavdia, Mr. Ranjeet Saw, Mr. Manu Krishnan G, Mr. Aniruddha Purushotham, Mr. Vinod Sharma, Mr. T. V. Ratnam, Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, Mr. Pradeep Rai, Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Vishal, Mrs. Subhadra Dwivedi, Mr. Amitabh Singh, Ms. Namita Choudhary, Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, Mr. Deepak Bhardwaj, Mr. Braj Kishore Mishra, Ms. Diksha Verma, Mr. Praveen Gaur, Mr. Nehaol Sri L.v, Ms. Rohini Narayanan, Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Mr. Mahi Pal Singh, Mr. Rajesh Singh, Mr. Javed Raza, Mr. Supriya, Mr. Saurabh Kumar Solanki, Ms. Sandeep Singh Dingra, Ms. Manisha Chawla, Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Ms. Swati Vishan, Mr. Rakesh Vishan, Mr. Sourabh Kumar Solanki, Mr. Shubham Rajhans, Mr. Ishank Ranjan, Mr. Prakhar Shukla,

Mr. Anupam Kumar, Mr. Lalit Dixit, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Jain, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Mr. Sahil Tagotra, Ms. Shreya Kasera, Mrs. D. Bharathi Reddy, Mr. Nishant Sharma, Mrs. D Tejaswi Reddy, Mr. K.M. Natraj, Mr. Neeraj Kr. Sharma, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Mr. Vatsal Joshi, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Mr. Harish Pandey, Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Mr. Santosh Ramdurg, Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, Mr. S. Gowthaman, Mr. D. L. Chidananda, Mr. Angad Baxi, Mr. Varun Varma, Mr. Sarthak Upadhyaya, Ms. Saudamini Gupta, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Ms. Susmita Singh, Mr. Manaj Sarkar, Mr. Jatin Malik, Mr. T. Hari Hara Sudhan, Mrs. Gomathi Lakshmi, Mr. Chandril Chattopadhyay, Ms. Himali Choudhary, Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Mr. Harish Chowdhary, Ms. Shalini Mishra, Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, Ms. Maninder Acharya, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Mr. Prang Newmai, Ms. Yanmi Phazang, Mr. Siddharth Sangal, Mr. Maibam Nabaghanashyam Singh, Mr. Ahanthem Henry, Mr. Ahanthem Rohen Singh, Mr. Mohan Singh, Mr. Aniket Rajput, Ms. Khoisnam Nirmala Devi, Mr. Yeshu Mehta, Mr. Tanay Hegde, Mr. Harshal Kumar, Mr. Kumar Mihir, Ms. Asmita Singh, Ms. Asmita Singh, Ms. Ankita Makan, Mr. Vivek Sharma, Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Mr. Ashish Pandey, Mr. Sunny Choudhary, Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Mrs. Anu K Joy, Mr. Alim Anvar, Mr. Santhosh K, Mrs. Devika A.L., Ms. Manju Jetley, Mr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Divyansh Mishra, Mr. Kumar Saurav, Mr. Hemant Kumar Sagar, Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, Ms. Prerna Singh, Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Mr. Gunnam Venkateswara Rao, Mr. Vishal Choubey, Mr. Harshit Sethi, Mr. Nikhil Jain, Mr. Rahil Mahajan, Ms. Mansi Tripathi, Mr. Kartik Yadav, Ms. Divya Jain, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Mr. Satyalipsu Ray, Mr. Deepak Singh, Mr. Shishir Kumar Jha, Ms. Priyal Sheth, Mr. Amit Kumar, Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, Mr. T.K. Nayak, Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Mr. Aditya Kumar, Mr. Pranav P P, Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., Ms. Manisha Ambwani, Ms. Vandana Sharma