Letter to BS: Longer stint for Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra

Misra is going to be 65 and due to retire on October 2, 2018

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra may be destined to continue for two more years beyond October 2, 2018. Keeping in view the large number of pending cases in both the High Court and the Supreme Court and vacancies for judges in the respective courts, the Parliamentary panel, in its report submitted to the government in March, had recommended increasing the retirement age of Supreme Court judges to 67 years from the present 65 years and that of the High Court judges to 65 years from the present 62 years. It has held that retaining the existing judges would help