{"id":35029,"date":"2014-09-01T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35029"},"modified":"2014-09-01T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:32:23","slug":"25-percent-vacant-posts-high-courts-filled-law-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/25-percent-vacant-posts-high-courts-filled-law-minister","title":{"rendered":"25 percent vacant posts in high courts to be filled: Law minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 14px\/22px Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35030\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/25-percent-vacant-posts-high-courts-filled-law-minister\/rs-p\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?fit=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,234\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rs p\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?fit=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?fit=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35030\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?resize=300%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"rs p\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rs-p.jpg?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The central government will soon fill 25 percent of vacant posts in high courts across<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>India<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as it has started getting proposals to reduce pendency of cases, Union<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Law<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and Justice Minister<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Ravi Shankar Prasad<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/22px Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; 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