The control over district courts and courts subordinate
thereto including the posting and promotion of, and the grant of leave to, persons belonging to the judicial
service of a State and holding any post inferior to the post of district judge shall be vested in the High Court,
but nothing in this article shall be construed as taking away from any such person any right of appeal which
he may have under the law regulating the conditions of his service or as authorising the High Court to deal
with him otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of his service prescribed under such law.
In this Chapter—
(a) the expression “district judge” includes judge of a city civil court, additional district judge, joint
district judge, assistant district judge, chief judge of a small cause court, chief presidency magistrate,
additional chief presidency magistrate, sessions judge, additional sessions judge and assistant sessions
Judge;
(b) the expression “judicial service” means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to
fill the post of district judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge.