{"id":49558,"date":"2017-08-25T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49558"},"modified":"2017-08-25T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:51:49","slug":"sc-adopts-exclusive-flag-plate-judges-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-adopts-exclusive-flag-plate-judges-vehicles","title":{"rendered":"SC adopts exclusive flag, plate for judges&#8217; vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44317\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44317\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-report-jk-police-youths-killing\/law-10\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,193\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"law\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44317 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=260%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC adopts exclusive flag, plate for judges' vehicles\" width=\"260\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=135%2C100&amp;ssl=1 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC adopts exclusive flag, plate for judges&#8217; vehicles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court has adopted an exclusive &#8220;flag&#8221; and &#8220;plate&#8221; for use on official vehicles of the Chief Justice of India and its judges.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court registry has also written to all the high courts in the country to adopt the flag and plate for using them on official vehicles of their judges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the view of the need being felt to have a common flag on the officials of the chief justice and the judges of the higher judiciary across the country, the Supreme Court of India has also written to all the high courts to consider adopting the same flag and plate for the official vehicles,&#8221; Rakesh Sharma, deputy registrar of the apex court, said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is also being shared with the HCs which could be used for the officials vehicles of the chief justices and the judges of the HCs by suitably replacing the name of the &#8220;Supreme Court of India&#8221; in the art-work by the names of the respective HCs.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adopted an exclusive &#8220;flag&#8221; and &#8220;plate&#8221; for use on official vehicles of the Chief Justice of India and its judges. The apex court registry has also written to all the high courts in the country to adopt the flag and plate for using them on official vehicles of their judges. &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,117,80,40285],"class_list":["post-49558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court-adopts-exclusive-flag-for-judges-vehicles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC adopts exclusive flag, plate for judges&#039; vehicles - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court has adopted an exclusive &quot;flag&quot; and &quot;plate&quot; for use on official vehicles of the Chief Justice of India and its judges. 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