Judges’ salaries
Although these might seem like hefty raises plus their substantial allowances, the hikes hardly kept pace when adjusted against inflation, and were at a lower rate than the salaries of lawmakers. Their remuneration remains a fraction of what many senior advocates in higher judiciary earn.
The new salaries will be effective from January 1, 2016. Then Chief Justice of India TS Thakur asked the government in 2016 to increase the salaries of judges . Arrears on account of revised salaries, gratuity, pension and family pension with effect from January 2016 will be paid as onetime lump sum payment, according to a government statement. To revise the salaries and allowances, the government will bring necessary amendments in the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 and High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954.
The pay hikes will put the salaries of judges on par with those of bureaucrats at the same level.
On October 31, a bench of the Supreme Court asked the government whether it had forgotten to increase the salaries of judges in keeping with the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission. The government had accepted those recommendations in March, but not acted on increasing the salaries of judges. the alleged assault. She told her mother that a boy from her class unbuttoned her pants in the classroom and used his finger to assault her, and sharpened a pencil in the washroom and assaulted her again.
“She tried pushing him, but could not get away as other children had left and there was no staff around,” the mother alleged.
In the FIR, the child’s mother stated that she complained to the schoolteacher through a text message that night. She informed the school again on Saturday, but the authorities allegedly did not cooperate with her and asked her to give a written complaint on Monday.
Since her daughter’s pain did not subside, she took her to a hospital where she was treated as well as a medico-legal case made. A police case was registered thereafter.
The mother alleged that there was no class teacher or even an ayah, or help, in either the classroom or washroom when the assault happened.
She said her daughter’s delayed exit from the classroom, as she saw in CCTV footage, corroborated the sexual assault allegation. The school’s lawyer, however, told HT that they had an ayah present in every washroom of the school.
A medical examination confirmed the assault.
Experts advised investigators to handle the case with sensitivity. “We must understand that it is absolutely not possible for a four-year-old to understand sexual behaviour. Is there a possibility of a sexual need being fulfilled in his case? Absolutely not,” says Dr Samir Parikh, the director of Fortis Healthcare’s department of mental health and behavioural sciences.