New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended the Centre to appoint five retired judges as ad-hoc judges in the Allahabad high court for a two-year tenure as a temporary measure aimed to tackle the burgeoning pendency of cases. The recommendation issued by the Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and the next two senior judges - justices Vikram Nath and JK Maheshwari - "approved the proposal" for appointment of retired judges justices Mohd. Faiz Alam Khan, Mohd. Aslam, Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi, Renu Agarwal, and Jyotsna Sharma. The recommendation has been made by the collegium in terms of Article 224-A of the Constitution of India for a period of two years. In January last year, the top court had allowed high courts across the country to recommend retired high court judges to be appointed on ad-hoc basis, subject to the conditions that they will hear only criminal appeals. They were permitted to recommend only 2 to 5 ad hoc judges and in any case, not exceeding 10% of the sanctioned strength in that high court. Under Article 224A of the Constitution of India, chief justices of high courts are entitled to request retired judges to again assume the office of a judge but the provision has been invoked only on three occasions in the past. htc...