Appearing before a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan, the counsel for the commission submitted that the NCT government has sent a request for filling up vacancies to 44 such posts and that the commission sought a clarification as it found some deficiencies.

The bench directed the city government to submit the clarification within 10 days so that the posts will be filled as early as possible.

Earlier this month, the court sought response from UPSC as to why the vacancies for the posts of Public Prosecutors have not been filled up for the past several years.

The bench had taken suo motu cognisance of a letter written by a group of undertrials that due to delay in trial process they end up spending more time in jail than the prescribed sentence under the law.

Later, it came to the court's knowledge that due to shortage of Public Prosecutors in courts, the hearing of cases got delayed as one PP was assigned cases at more than one court.