India, Feb. 19 -- Former chief justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Wednesday batted for a national-level judicial recruitment process to strengthen India's judicial system and said an All India judicial service, which also addresses the federal concerns over the issue, was necessary.

"Can we bring All India Judicial Service? I think it is important in the present context. Today, State governments say that we have a federal structure and they are concerned with the fact that an Indian Judicial Service can dilute Indian Federalism," he said while speaking at the annual convention of OTV, an Odisha-based television channel, in Bhubaneswar.

He said though district judiciary recruitment is a state subject a balanced approach is necessar...