The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court order which had made three years of legal practice mandatory for candidates to be eligible for the post of civil judge. A bench comprising Justices P S Narasimha and Atul S Chandurkar allowed the appeal filed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court challenging the division bench ruling.

Appearing for the high court, advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey contended that holding a re-examination was “unconstitutional, impractical," and would open the floodgates of litigation.

It may be recalled that the apex court had last year stayed the high court order that had stalled the recruitment of civil judges, which was conducted without enforcing the mandatory three-year practice requirement.

Although the amended recruitment rules had been uphe

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