Part VI · CHAPTER VI.—SUBORDINATE COURTS
Article 235 Control over subordinate courts.
In force
This article places the subordinate courts under the High Court. Posting, promotion, and leave for the district judiciary rest with the High Court. The control keeps the lower bench answerable to the High Court. The district bench is not a State department.
- The control over district courts and courts subordinate thereto including the posting and promotion of, and the grant of leave to, persons belonging to the judicial service of a State and holding any post inferior to the post of district judge shall be vested in the High Court, but nothing in this article shall be construed as taking away from any such person any right of appeal which he may have under the law regulating the conditions of his service or as authorising the High Court to deal with him otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of his service prescribed under such law.
What it means
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This article places the subordinate courts under the High Court. Posting, promotion, and leave for the district judiciary rest with the High Court. The control keeps the lower bench answerable to the High Court. The district bench is not a State department.