The Supreme Court on Thursday (November 20) raised the retirement age of judicial officers of Madhya Pradesh from 60 to 61 years.

In an interim order, a bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justices Prasanna B Varale and K Vinod Chandran referred to a similar decision taken by the Telangana High Court. It asked why judicial officers should be denied the relief when the state government was willing to do so.

“It is needless to say that judicial officers as well as other employees of the state government draw salaries from the same public exchequer,” the bench said, adding that the retirement age of other state government employees is 62 years.

In any case there is a difference of one year between the retirement age of high court judges and the district court judges, the court said

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