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Fourth
Amendment,
Fifth
Amendment
and
Fifteenth
Amendment. So far as article 95 is concerned, after a
long
journey,
it
has
reached
its
position
by
Fifteenth Amendment in 2011. Similarly article 96 has
been
amended
by
the
Fourth
Amendment,
Fifth
Amendment, Seventh Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment,
Fifteenth Amendment and Sixteenth Amendment. In the
Seventh Amendment the retirement age of the Judges
was increased to 65 years from 62 years and in the
Fourteenth Amendment retirement age was increased to
67 years and in the Fifteenth Amendment it has been
retained.
Under the original provision of article 96, it
was provided that a Judge shall be removed from his
office by the President pursuant to a resolution of
Parliament
total
supported
number
of
by
members
two-third
on
the
majority
ground
of
of
the
proved
misbehaviour or incapacity. This provision has been
done away with in the Fourth Amendment and this power
was
given
upon
the
President
to
exercise
on
the
ground of misbehaviour or incapacity of a Judge by
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