India, May 16 -- The Supreme Court on Friday directed all states and high courts to ensure that the services of court managers hired on ad-hoc basis are regularised, and the rules regarding their service conditions finalised.

"We direct that all the high courts in the country shall frame or amend the rules providing for recruitment and conditions of service of Court Managers, by taking the Assam Rules of 2018 as the model Rules, and submit it to the state government for approval within a period of 3 months." a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai and justices AG Masih and K Vinod Chandran said.

The court granted another three months to the state governments to grant approval to the rules, while clarifying that these man...