On 12^th October 1949, Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [West Bengal Muslim] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows; 

“When we come to the question of merit, it is well known fact that the Judges of High Court were receiving high salaries commensurate with the high quality of intellectual work they were accustomed to do. In fact, I accepting a position of a Judgeship of the High Court, there has already been a very substantial financial sacrifice. We have here in this House two eminent ex Judges of High Court and they were bear testimony that the post of a Judge of a High Court is no secure job, it is a very laborious and extremely anxious post and a satisfactory discharge of a duty involves tremendous labour and heavy work. It is not anybody or everybody who can prove to be a very good High Court Judge. He is only a Specialist of very high attainment, who can do so. Only a man of high intellectual abilities and one capable of putting in much industry that he can discharge the duties of the High Court Judge. The qualities of the Federal Court or the Supreme Court Judges are to be still higher, I submit therefore the pay of these Judges should not be reduced to pay which they were getting should be continued but the present suggestion of the Drafting Committee is to the effect that only those Judges who were appointed before the 1^st November 1948 should continue to get their previous salary but a Judge appointed later on would be receiving much less. I do not see the Justice of this distinction at all bearing in mind that the value of the Rupee has considerably depreciated apart from the devaluation. Rupee at the most was worth before devaluation was 4 anas as compared with pre wars. Now on account of the recent devaluation of Rupee has further depreciated and therefore the Judges salary is really not worth much, the salary which is at present prevailing has been going on for very long series of years. Also the Judges will have to pay a high rate of income tax if you pay the high salary the Judge you do not pay him all the money, you will deduct about 20% out of that pay and the Judge has other income the deduction will be much higher.”

Comment: The financial position of the Judges was something which was not palatable in the economic sense. However, it continues even today. There should be no deduction on any account from the salary of Honourable Judges.